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Politics in Central Europe is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), DOAJ. Published by Sciendo.
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ISSN 1801-3422Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sciendo
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 375 / 745 | 49th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 780 / 1530 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2025 (also 2010), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Politics in Central Europe is Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 375 of 745) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 780 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Politics in Central Europe 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 1.4, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.241, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Politics in Central Europe is published by Sciendo. Its ISSN is 1801-3422.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Politics in Central Europe has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #339 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Politics in Central Europe published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 40. 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 30 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Czechia (26.7%), Hungary (20%) and Poland (10%).
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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