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PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1081-6976Verify ISSN ↗1555-2934Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 147 / 536 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Law | 428 / 1162 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 679 / 1530 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present (also 1973–1974), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review is Q2 in Anthropology (rank 147 of 536), Q2 in Law (rank 428 of 1162) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 679 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.490, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1081-6976 and its online ISSN is 1555-2934.
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.
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 0.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #162 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 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.
In its latest 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (50.5%), United Kingdom (10.4%) and Canada (6.2%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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