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Problems of Post-Communism is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by M.E. Sharpe Inc..
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ISSN 1075-8216Verify ISSN ↗1557-783XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 184 / 1530 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Problems of Post-Communism is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 184 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Problems of Post-Communism 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.881, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 43.
Problems of Post-Communism is published by M.E. Sharpe Inc. Its print ISSN is 1075-8216 and its online ISSN is 1557-783X.
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.
Problems of Post-Communism has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 2.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #201 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Problems of Post-Communism published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 67. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (14.7%), United States (12.4%) and Czechia (11.7%).
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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