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World Regional Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7). Published by Editorial Department of World Regional Studies.
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ISSN 1004-9479Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Department of World Regional Studies
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 331 / 745 | 55th | Q2 |
| Urban Studies | 132 / 295 | 55th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 481 / 876 | 45th | Q3 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 103 / 184 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
World Regional Studies is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 331 of 745), Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 132 of 295) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 481 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
World Regional Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.342, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
World Regional Studies is published by Editorial Department of World Regional Studies. Its ISSN is 1004-9479.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Regional Studies has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #648 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
World Regional Studies published 5 papers in 2016; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 69. 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.
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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