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Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | 17 / 140 | 88th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 70 / 387 | 81st | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 204 / 876 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies is Q1 in Demography (rank 17 of 140), Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 70 of 387) and Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 204 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.802, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 43.
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1556-2948 and its online ISSN is 1556-2956.
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 Immigrant and Refugee Studies has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 137 Scopus journals in Demography.
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies published 93 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (12.9%), Germany (9%) and Canada (8.3%).
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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