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Pacific Focus is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1225-4657Verify ISSN ↗1976-5118Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$2,810 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 379 / 745 | 49th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 789 / 1530 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Pacific Focus is Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 379 of 745) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 789 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Pacific Focus 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.525, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,810 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Pacific Focus is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 1225-4657 and its online ISSN is 1976-5118.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pacific Focus has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #350 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Pacific Focus published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 31. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (56.5%), China (23.2%) and United Kingdom (5.2%). 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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