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Malaysian Journal of International Relations is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), DOAJ. Published by University of Malaya.
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ISSN 2289-5043Verify ISSN ↗2600-8181Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Malaya
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 626 / 745 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Malaysian Journal of International Relations is Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 626 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Malaysian Journal of International Relations 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 16th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.103, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 2.
Malaysian Journal of International Relations is published by University of Malaya. Its print ISSN is 2289-5043 and its online ISSN is 2600-8181.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Malaysian Journal of International Relations has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #487 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Malaysian Journal of International Relations published 11 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 16. 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 30 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from Indonesia (23.3%), Malaysia (13.3%) and India (10%).
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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