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Latin American Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0094-582XVerify ISSN ↗1552-678XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 840 / 1530 | 45th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 584 / 876 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present (also 1984, 1977), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Latin American Perspectives is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 840 of 1530) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 584 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Latin American Perspectives 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.277, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 55.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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.
Latin American Perspectives is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0094-582X and its online ISSN is 1552-678X.
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.
Latin American Perspectives has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 1.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #417 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Latin American Perspectives published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 135. 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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