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Polis. Political Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Editorial Board Polis (Political Studies).
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ISSN 1026-9487Verify ISSN ↗1684-0070Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Board Polis (Political Studies)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 324 / 1936 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 396 / 1434 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 908 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 446 / 745 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Polis. Political Studies is Q1 in History (rank 324 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 396 of 1434) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 908 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Polis. Political Studies is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.266, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
Polis. Political Studies is published by Editorial Board Polis (Political Studies). Its print ISSN is 1026-9487 and its online ISSN is 1684-0070.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Polis. Political Studies has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Polis. Political Studies published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 85. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (93.3%), Armenia (2.1%) and United Kingdom (1.4%). 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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