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Journal of Contemporary European Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1478-2790Verify ISSN ↗1478-2804Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 78 / 1434 | 94th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 139 / 745 | 81st | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 309 / 1530 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.9.
Journal of Contemporary European Studies is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 78 of 1434), Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 139 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 309 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Contemporary European 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.690, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
Journal of Contemporary European Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1478-2790 and its online ISSN is 1478-2804.
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.
Journal of Contemporary European Studies has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 1.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Contemporary European Studies published 85 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 117. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (10.2%), United Kingdom (9.7%) and Italy (8.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (2.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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