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Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 2515-8538Verify ISSN ↗2515-8546Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 79 / 175 | 55th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 224 / 286 | 21st | Q4 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 247 / 289 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 79 of 175), Q4 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 224 of 286) and Q4 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 247 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World 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 0.5, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.131, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 3.
Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2515-8538 and its online ISSN is 2515-8546.
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.
Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World published 48 papers in 2025. 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 76 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from United States (43.4%), United Kingdom (15.8%) and Canada (15.1%).
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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