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Presidential Studies Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0360-4918Verify ISSN ↗1741-5705Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,300 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 161 / 1936 | 91st | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 734 / 1530 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 155 / 248 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1988, 1985, 1983), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Presidential Studies Quarterly is Q1 in History (rank 161 of 1936), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 734 of 1530) and Q3 in Public Administration (rank 155 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Presidential Studies Quarterly 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.454, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,300 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.
Presidential Studies Quarterly is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0360-4918 and its online ISSN is 1741-5705.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Presidential Studies Quarterly has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #333 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Presidential Studies Quarterly published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 96. 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 92 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (85.1%), United Kingdom (5.4%) and Netherlands (2.2%). 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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