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Research in Political Sociology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 0895-9935Verify ISSN ↗2977-4217Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1385 / 1530 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2017–2021, 2010–2015, 2008), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Research in Political Sociology is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1385 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in Political Sociology 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 9th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Research in Political Sociology is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0895-9935 and its online ISSN is 2977-4217.
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.
Research in Political Sociology has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,360 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Research in Political Sociology published 14 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 19. 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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