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Human Rights Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 0275-0392Verify ISSN ↗1085-794XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 293 / 744 | 60th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 623 / 1530 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1992, 1990, 1981), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Human Rights Quarterly is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 293 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 623 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Rights Quarterly 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.474, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 85.
Human Rights Quarterly is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0275-0392 and its online ISSN is 1085-794X.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Human Rights Quarterly has an h-index of 112 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #460 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Human Rights Quarterly published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 75. 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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