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Nordic Journal of Migration Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Helsinki University Press.
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ISSN 1799-649XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 130 / 536 | 75th | Q1 |
| Law | 387 / 1162 | 66th | Q2 |
| Demography | 54 / 140 | 61st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 635 / 1530 | 58th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 446 / 876 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 130 of 536), Q2 in Law (rank 387 of 1162) and Q2 in Demography (rank 54 of 140), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.426, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research is published by Helsinki University Press. Its ISSN is 1799-649X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 56. 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 74 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (31.8%), Finland (24.1%) and Norway (20.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (3.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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