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New Political Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0739-3148Verify ISSN ↗1469-9931Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 828 / 1530 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–2025 (also 1979–1986), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
New Political Science is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 828 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
New Political Science is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.359, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
New Political Science is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0739-3148 and its online ISSN is 1469-9931.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
New Political Science has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #893 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
New Political Science published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 72. 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 39 research articles (2023–2024), authors are most often from United States (69.2%), Brazil (5.1%) and Germany (5.1%). 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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