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Journal of the Indian Ocean Region is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Inc..
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ISSN 1948-0881Verify ISSN ↗1948-108XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 164 / 745 | 78th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 367 / 1530 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 164 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 367 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.436, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region is published by Taylor and Francis Inc. Its print ISSN is 1948-0881 and its online ISSN is 1948-108X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #305 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 44. 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 72 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (29.6%), South Africa (16%) and Australia (10.2%).
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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