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International Journal of Press/Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1940-1612Verify ISSN ↗1940-1620Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 16 / 1530 | 98th | Q1 |
| Communication | 11 / 541 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2003), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.3.
International Journal of Press/Politics is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 16 of 1530) and Q1 in Communication (rank 11 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Press/Politics 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 13.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.858, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 95.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,900 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 Journal of Press/Politics is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1940-1612 and its online ISSN is 1940-1620.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Press/Politics has an h-index of 92 and a 2-year mean of 4.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
International Journal of Press/Politics published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 75. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.1%), Germany (13.8%) and Netherlands (8.6%).
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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