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International Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.9), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0020-5850Verify ISSN ↗1468-2346Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,936 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 21 / 745 | 97th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 70 / 1530 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1988–1989, 1979–1986), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.9.
International Affairs is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 21 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 70 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
International Affairs 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 7.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.097, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 113.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,936 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.
International Affairs is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0020-5850 and its online ISSN is 1468-2346.
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.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Affairs has an h-index of 246 and a 2-year mean of 4.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
International Affairs published 315 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 345. 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (28.2%), United States (13.3%) and Germany (6.1%).
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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