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Russian Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2451-8913Verify ISSN ↗2451-8921Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 236 / 1936 | 87th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 344 / 1434 | 76th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 834 / 1530 | 45th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 407 / 745 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Russian Politics is Q1 in History (rank 236 of 1936), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 344 of 1434) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 834 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Russian Politics 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.241, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
Russian Politics is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2451-8913 and its online ISSN is 2451-8921.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Russian Politics has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #297 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Russian Politics published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 27. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Russia (36.1%), United States (19.1%) and Finland (11.5%).
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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