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Middle Eastern Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 438 / 1936 | 77th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 478 / 1434 | 66th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1002 / 1530 | 34th | Q3 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 672 / 876 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Middle Eastern Studies is Q1 in History (rank 438 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 478 of 1434) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1002 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Middle Eastern Studies 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.238, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
Middle Eastern Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0026-3206 and its online ISSN is 1743-7881.
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.
Middle Eastern Studies has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 0.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #346 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Middle Eastern Studies published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 102. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (56.6%), Israel (15.4%) and United States (6.6%). 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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