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Regional Science Inquiry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3). Published by Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists.
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ISSN 1791-5961Verify ISSN ↗1791-7735Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 542 / 1530 | 64th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 404 / 876 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Development | 153 / 314 | 51st | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 415 / 755 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Regional Science Inquiry is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 542 of 1530), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 404 of 876) and Q2 in Development (rank 153 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Regional Science Inquiry 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 2.3, quartile Q2, 64th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.114, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Regional Science Inquiry is published by Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists. Its print ISSN is 1791-5961 and its online ISSN is 1791-7735.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Regional Science Inquiry has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,360 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Regional Science Inquiry published 1 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 12. 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.
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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