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Monthly Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SSCI. Published by Monthly Review Press.
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ISSN 0027-0520Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Studies | 102 / 233 | 56th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 753 / 1530 | 50th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 531 / 876 | 39th | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 319 / 432 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 1996–2020, 1987, 1984, 1980–1982, 1977), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Monthly Review is Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 102 of 233), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 753 of 1530) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 531 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Monthly Review 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.596, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
Monthly Review is published by Monthly Review Press. Its ISSN is 0027-0520.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Monthly Review has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #150 of 225 Scopus journals in Gender Studies.
Monthly Review published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 96. 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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