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International Journal on Minority and Group Rights is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1385-4879Verify ISSN ↗1571-8115Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 456 / 745 | 38th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 630 / 876 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1993–1997), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights is Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 456 of 745) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 630 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.229, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1385-4879 and its online ISSN is 1571-8115.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #390 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 56. 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 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Ethiopia (26.9%), India (9.7%) and Nigeria (4.8%).
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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