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Review of Black Political Economy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4), ABDC C. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0034-6446Verify ISSN ↗1936-4814Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 105 / 1434 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 310 / 755 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Review of Black Political Economy is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 105 of 1434) and Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 310 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Review of Black Political Economy 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 3.4, quartile Q1, 92nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.670, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Review of Black Political Economy is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0034-6446 and its online ISSN is 1936-4814.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Review of Black Political Economy has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #217 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Review of Black Political Economy published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 32. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (70.3%), Nigeria (5.7%) and United Kingdom (4%). 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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