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Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Seriia 4: Istoriia, Regionovedenie, Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Volgograd State University.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1998-9938Verify ISSN ↗2312-8704Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Volgograd State University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1062 / 1936 | 45th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 943 / 1434 | 34th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 646 / 745 | 13th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1328 / 1530 | 13th | 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 Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Seriia 4: Istoriia, Regionovedenie, Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia is Q3 in History (rank 1062 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 943 of 1434) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 646 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Seriia 4: Istoriia, Regionovedenie, Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.236, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 6.
Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Seriia 4: Istoriia, Regionovedenie, Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia is published by Volgograd State University. Its print ISSN is 1998-9938 and its online ISSN is 2312-8704.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Seriia 4: Istoriia, Regionovedenie, Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #518 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Seriia 4: Istoriia, Regionovedenie, Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia published 128 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 168. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (87%), Ukraine (3.6%) and Kazakhstan (2.6%). 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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