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Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by MGIMO University.
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ISSN 2071-8160Verify ISSN ↗2541-9099Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MGIMO University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 508 / 1936 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1055 / 1530 | 31st | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 533 / 745 | 28th | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 190 / 235 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta is Q2 in History (rank 508 of 1936), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1055 of 1530) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 533 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta 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 Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.227, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta is published by MGIMO University. Its print ISSN is 2071-8160 and its online ISSN is 2541-9099.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #153 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 117. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (89.1%), Mexico (2.1%) and Türkiye (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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