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Revista de Ciencia Politica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SSCI. Published by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
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ISSN 0716-1417Verify ISSN ↗0718-090XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 166 / 745 | 77th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 378 / 1530 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–2025 (also 2002), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Revista de Ciencia Politica is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 166 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 378 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Revista de Ciencia Politica 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.975, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
Revista de Ciencia Politica is published by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Its print ISSN is 0716-1417 and its online ISSN is 0718-090X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Revista de Ciencia Politica has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Revista de Ciencia Politica published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 35. 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 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (15.4%), Chile (14.5%) and Mexico (10.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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