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Global South is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Indiana University Press.
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 454 / 1186 | 61st | Q2 |
| History | 1028 / 1936 | 46th | Q3 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 415 / 692 | 40th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 919 / 1434 | 35th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 643 / 745 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Global South is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 454 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 1028 of 1936) and Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 415 of 692), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Global South is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2, 61st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.122, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 3.
Global South is published by Indiana University Press. Its print ISSN is 1932-8648 and its online ISSN is 1932-8656.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global South has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #318 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Global South published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 116. 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.
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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