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New Left Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), formerly ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by New Left Review Subscriptions.
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ISSN 0028-6060Verify ISSN ↗2044-0480Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: New Left Review Subscriptions
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 42 / 745 | 94th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 111 / 1530 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2024 (also 1987, 1984), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
New Left Review is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 42 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 111 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
New Left 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.622, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 86.
New Left Review is published by New Left Review Subscriptions. Its print ISSN is 0028-6060 and its online ISSN is 2044-0480.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated B in the 2010 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
New Left Review has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #406 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
New Left Review published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 63. 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.
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