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Political Economy of the Middle East is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2522-8854Verify ISSN ↗2522-8862Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 579 / 745 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 238 / 283 | 16th | 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 2023–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Political Economy of the Middle East is Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 579 of 745) and Q4 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 238 of 283), by CiteScore 2025.
Political Economy of the Middle East 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Political Economy of the Middle East is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2522-8854 and its online ISSN is 2522-8862.
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 Economy of the Middle East has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 1.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Political Economy of the Middle East published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 28. 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 1 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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