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Refuge is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by York University Libraries.
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ISSN 0229-5113Verify ISSN ↗1920-7336Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: York University Libraries
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | 64 / 140 | 54th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 341 / 745 | 54th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 710 / 1530 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 493 / 876 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Refuge is Q2 in Demography (rank 64 of 140), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 341 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 710 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Refuge is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.454, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
Refuge is published by York University Libraries. Its print ISSN is 0229-5113 and its online ISSN is 1920-7336.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Refuge has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 0.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 137 Scopus journals in Demography.
Refuge published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 34. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from Canada (36.7%), United States (13.8%) and United Kingdom (12.8%).
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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