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Quarterly Journal of Political Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. Published by Now Publishers.
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ISSN 1554-0626Verify ISSN ↗1554-0634Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Now Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 211 / 745 | 71st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 468 / 1530 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Quarterly Journal of Political Science is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 211 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 468 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Quarterly Journal of Political Science 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.792, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
Quarterly Journal of Political Science is published by Now Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1554-0626 and its online ISSN is 1554-0634.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Quarterly Journal of Political Science has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #151 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Quarterly Journal of Political Science published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 27. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (77.3%), United Kingdom (5.1%) and Italy (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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