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IMISCOE Research Series is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 2364-4087Verify ISSN ↗2364-4095Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 216 / 745 | 71st | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 232 / 744 | 68th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 477 / 1530 | 68th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
IMISCOE Research Series is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 216 of 745), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 232 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 477 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
IMISCOE Research Series 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 2.7, quartile Q2, 71st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
IMISCOE Research Series is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 2364-4087 and its online ISSN is 2364-4095.
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.
IMISCOE Research Series has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 0.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #374 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
IMISCOE Research Series published 152 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 217. 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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