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Journal of Political Philosophy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.5). Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0963-8016Verify ISSN ↗1467-9760Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,030 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 3 / 891 | 99th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 35 / 1530 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.5.
Journal of Political Philosophy is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 3 of 891) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 35 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Political Philosophy 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 10.5, quartile Q1, 99th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.336, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,030 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Political Philosophy is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0963-8016 and its online ISSN is 1467-9760.
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 Political Philosophy has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #698 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of Political Philosophy published 2 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 46. 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 57 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from United States (29.8%), United Kingdom (25.4%) and Netherlands (8.8%).
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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