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Global Environmental Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 1526-3800Verify ISSN ↗1536-0091Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 15 / 745 | 98th | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 25 / 134 | 81st | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 99 / 345 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Global Environmental Politics is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 15 of 745), Q1 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 25 of 134) and Q2 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 99 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Environmental Politics is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.646, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 81.
Global Environmental Politics is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 1526-3800 and its online ISSN is 1536-0091.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Environmental Politics has an h-index of 110 and a 2-year mean of 2.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Global Environmental Politics published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 88. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 61 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.8%), Ireland (40.6%) and Australia (1.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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