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Scottish Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
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ISSN 0966-0356Verify ISSN ↗2053-888XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1087 / 1530 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
Scottish Affairs is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1087 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Scottish Affairs 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 28th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.214, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 21.
Scottish Affairs is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 0966-0356 and its online ISSN is 2053-888X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Scottish Affairs has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,069 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Scottish Affairs published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 56. 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 47 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (94.7%), France (2.1%) and Denmark (2.1%). 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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