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Global Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. Published by University of California Press.
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ISSN 2575-7350Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 325 / 744 | 56th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 680 / 1530 | 55th | Q2 |
| Communication | 247 / 541 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Global Perspectives is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 325 of 744), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 680 of 1530) and Q2 in Communication (rank 247 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Perspectives is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.354, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
Global Perspectives is published by University of California Press. Its ISSN is 2575-7350.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Perspectives has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #374 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Global Perspectives published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 77. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.3%), United Kingdom (15.5%) and Denmark (15.3%).
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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