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Parameters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2). Published by United States Army War College.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0031-1723Verify ISSN ↗2158-2106Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: United States Army War College
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 259 / 1936 | 86th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 416 / 744 | 44th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 860 / 1530 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 422 / 745 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Safety Research | 82 / 108 | 24th | 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–present (also 1982), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Parameters is Q1 in History (rank 259 of 1936), Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 416 of 744) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 860 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Parameters 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 1.2, quartile Q1, 86th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.296, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
Parameters is published by United States Army War College. Its print ISSN is 0031-1723 and its online ISSN is 2158-2106.
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.
Parameters has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #227 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Parameters published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 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.
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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