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Information Polity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 1570-1255Verify ISSN ↗1875-8754Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 338 / 1530 | 77th | Q1 |
| Communication | 120 / 541 | 77th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 86 / 248 | 65th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 219 / 519 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
Information Polity is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 338 of 1530), Q1 in Communication (rank 120 of 541) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 86 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Information Polity 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.509, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Information Polity is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 1570-1255 and its online ISSN is 1875-8754.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Information systems.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Information Polity has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 2.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #258 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Information Polity published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 45. 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Netherlands (18.4%), United States (9.4%) and Switzerland (6.9%).
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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