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Interdisciplinary Political Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.9), DOAJ. Published by University of Salento.
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ISSN 2039-8573Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Salento
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 292 / 745 | 60th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 633 / 1530 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.9.
Interdisciplinary Political Studies is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 292 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 633 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Interdisciplinary Political Studies 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 1.9, quartile Q2, 60th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.204, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Interdisciplinary Political Studies is published by University of Salento. Its ISSN is 2039-8573.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Interdisciplinary Political Studies has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #648 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
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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