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Perspectives on Federalism is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), DOAJ. Published by Centro Studi Sul Federalismo.
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ISSN 2036-5438Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Centro Studi Sul Federalismo
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 1054 / 1162 | 9th | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 684 / 745 | 8th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1415 / 1530 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Perspectives on Federalism is Q4 in Law (rank 1054 of 1162), Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 684 of 745) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1415 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Perspectives on Federalism 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 0.2, quartile Q4, 9th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.104, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
Perspectives on Federalism is published by Centro Studi Sul Federalismo. Its ISSN is 2036-5438.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Perspectives on Federalism has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #538 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Perspectives on Federalism published 2 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 43. 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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