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Journal of Global South Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Florida Press.
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ISSN 2476-1397Verify ISSN ↗2476-1419Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 749 / 1936 | 60th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1210 / 1530 | 20th | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 600 / 745 | 19th | Q4 |
| Development | 285 / 314 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Global South Studies is Q2 in History (rank 749 of 1936), Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1210 of 1530) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 600 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Global South Studies 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, 60th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.246, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 17.
Journal of Global South Studies is published by University of Florida Press. Its print ISSN is 2476-1397 and its online ISSN is 2476-1419.
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.
Journal of Global South Studies has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,280 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Global South Studies published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 57. 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.
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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