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Political Campaigning and Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2662-589XVerify ISSN ↗2662-5903Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 665 / 745 | 10th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1379 / 1530 | 9th | Q4 |
| Communication | 493 / 541 | 8th | 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 2017–present (also 2014), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Political Campaigning and Communication is Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 665 of 745), Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1379 of 1530) and Q4 in Communication (rank 493 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Political Campaigning and Communication 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 10th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Political Campaigning and Communication is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2662-589X and its online ISSN is 2662-5903.
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.
Political Campaigning and Communication has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #634 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Political Campaigning and Communication published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 63. 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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