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International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0885-0607Verify ISSN ↗1521-0561Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 338 / 745 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1988–1991, 1986), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 338 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.489, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0885-0607 and its online ISSN is 1521-0561.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #291 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence published 110 papers in 2025. 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 44 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.7%), United Kingdom (17%) and Australia (10.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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