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Korean Journal of International Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by The Korean Association of International Studies.
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ISSN 2233-470XVerify ISSN ↗2288-5072Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Korean Association of International Studies
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 479 / 745 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Korean Journal of International Studies is Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 479 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Korean Journal of International Studies 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.200, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Korean Journal of International Studies is published by The Korean Association of International Studies. Its print ISSN is 2233-470X and its online ISSN is 2288-5072.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Korean Journal of International Studies has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #441 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Korean Journal of International Studies published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 18. 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 41 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (61%), United States (9.8%) and China (6.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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