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Soviet and Post Soviet Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1075-1262Verify ISSN ↗1876-3324Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 659 / 1936 | 65th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1171 / 1530 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974 (also 1976–1977, 1979, 1981, 1983–1984, 1987–1988, 1993, 1995–1997, 1999–2000, 2009–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Soviet and Post Soviet Review is Q2 in History (rank 659 of 1936) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1171 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Soviet and Post Soviet Review 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.171, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Soviet and Post Soviet Review is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1075-1262 and its online ISSN is 1876-3324.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Soviet and Post Soviet Review has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #691 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Soviet and Post Soviet Review published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 42. 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 82 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (41.5%), Poland (10.4%) and Russia (7.9%).
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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