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Politics and Governance is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Cogitatio Press.
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ISSN 2183-2463Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cogitatio Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 230 / 1530 | 85th | Q1 |
| Public Administration | 59 / 248 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Politics and Governance is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 230 of 1530) and Q1 in Public Administration (rank 59 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Politics and Governance 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.728, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,132 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.
Politics and Governance is published by Cogitatio Press. Its ISSN is 2183-2463.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Politics and Governance has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 3.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #98 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Politics and Governance published 175 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Italy (14.5%), Netherlands (12.3%) and Germany (9.8%).
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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