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State Politics and Policy Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.6), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1532-4400Verify ISSN ↗1946-1607Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 153 / 692 | 77th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 222 / 745 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.6.
State Politics and Policy Quarterly is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 153 of 692) and Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 222 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
State Politics and Policy Quarterly 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.901, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 52.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
State Politics and Policy Quarterly is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1532-4400 and its online ISSN is 1946-1607.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Public Sector and Health Care field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
State Politics and Policy Quarterly has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 1.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #106 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
State Politics and Policy Quarterly published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 33. 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 85 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (95.9%), Switzerland (1.8%) and United Kingdom (1.2%). 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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