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International Political Economy Series is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2662-2483Verify ISSN ↗2662-2491Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 471 / 745 | 36th | Q3 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 205 / 289 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2014–2017), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
International Political Economy Series is Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 471 of 745) and Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 205 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
International Political Economy Series 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, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
International Political Economy Series is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2662-2483 and its online ISSN is 2662-2491.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Political Economy Series has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #540 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
International Political Economy Series published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 223. 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.
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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