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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.2), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1369-183XVerify ISSN ↗1469-9451Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | 4 / 140 | 97th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 30 / 692 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.2.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is Q1 in Demography (rank 4 of 140) and Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 30 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration 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 7.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.456, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 133.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1369-183X and its online ISSN is 1469-9451.
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 graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field (up from 1 in 2021).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies has an h-index of 162 and a 2-year mean of 4.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 137 Scopus journals in Demography.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies published 272 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 274. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (19.5%), United States (8.2%) and Germany (6.9%).
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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