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Journal of Common Market Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0021-9886Verify ISSN ↗1468-5965Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$4,170 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 18 / 745 | 97th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 100 / 755 | 86th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 41 / 235 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 99 / 456 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1962–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Journal of Common Market Studies is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 18 of 745), Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 100 of 755) and Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 41 of 235), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Common Market Studies 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.804, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 118.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,170 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.
Journal of Common Market Studies is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0021-9886 and its online ISSN is 1468-5965.
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.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the International Business and Area Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Common Market Studies has an h-index of 145 and a 2-year mean of 4.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Journal of Common Market Studies published 148 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 183. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.8%), Netherlands (9.3%) and Germany (7.2%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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