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Pacific Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. Published by University of British Columbia.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0030-851XVerify ISSN ↗1715-3379Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 537 / 1530 | 64th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 402 / 876 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–2025 (also 1984, 1981–1982, 1979), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Pacific Affairs is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 537 of 1530) and Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 402 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Pacific Affairs 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.641, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
Pacific Affairs is published by University of British Columbia. Its print ISSN is 0030-851X and its online ISSN is 1715-3379.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pacific Affairs has an h-index of 178 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,133 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Pacific Affairs published 172 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 241. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (31.2%), Australia (15.6%) and Japan (5.9%).
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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