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South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0085-6401Verify ISSN ↗1479-0270Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 499 / 1936 | 74th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 540 / 1434 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1050 / 1530 | 31st | Q3 |
| Development | 264 / 314 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present (also 1971–1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies is Q2 in History (rank 499 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 540 of 1434) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1050 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.257, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0085-6401 and its online ISSN is 1479-0270.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #318 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 132. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (30.6%), United States (21.3%) and United Kingdom (15.4%).
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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