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International Political Science Abstracts is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 187 / 692 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 324 / 745 | 56th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 676 / 1530 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 2017–2018, 2007), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
International Political Science Abstracts is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 187 of 692), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 324 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 676 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
International Political Science Abstracts 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 1.8, quartile Q2, 73rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.270, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 3.
International Political Science Abstracts is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0020-8345 and its online ISSN is 1751-9292.
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.
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 Science Abstracts has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #325 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
International Political Science Abstracts published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 265. 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 16 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (43.8%), Canada (12.5%) and Japan (6.3%).
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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