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Swiss Political Science Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 1424-7755Verify ISSN ↗1662-6370Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$3,140 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 153 / 745 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
Swiss Political Science Review is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 153 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Swiss Political Science Review 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.074, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,140 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.
Swiss Political Science Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 1424-7755 and its online ISSN is 1662-6370.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Swiss Political Science Review has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 1.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Swiss Political Science Review published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 79. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Switzerland (42.3%), Germany (13.8%) and United Kingdom (7.1%).
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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