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Global Governance is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), formerly ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1075-2846Verify ISSN ↗1942-6720Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 340 / 745 | 54th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 709 / 1530 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Safety Research | 71 / 108 | 34th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 167 / 249 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Global Governance is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 340 of 745), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 709 of 1530) and Q3 in Safety Research (rank 71 of 108), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Global Governance 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.343, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 76.
Global Governance is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1075-2846 and its online ISSN is 1942-6720.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated B in the 2016 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Governance has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #365 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Global Governance published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 43. 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 82 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.7%), United Kingdom (12.8%) and Netherlands (10.4%).
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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