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North Korean Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5). Published by McFarland and Company, Inc.
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ISSN 1551-2789Verify ISSN ↗1941-2886Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 817 / 1936 | 57th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 776 / 1434 | 45th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1244 / 1530 | 18th | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 610 / 745 | 18th | Q4 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 253 / 289 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025 (also 2010–2017), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
North Korean Review is Q2 in History (rank 817 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 776 of 1434) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1244 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
North Korean Review is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2, 57th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.107, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
North Korean Review is published by McFarland and Company, Inc. Its print ISSN is 1551-2789 and its online ISSN is 1941-2886.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
North Korean Review has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
North Korean Review published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 22. 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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