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World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2522-0985Verify ISSN ↗2522-0993Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 21 / 1936 | 98th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 135 / 745 | 81st | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 306 / 1530 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 2018–2020), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures is Q1 in History (rank 21 of 1936), Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 135 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 306 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures 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 4, quartile Q1, 98th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2522-0985 and its online ISSN is 2522-0993.
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-Systems Evolution and Global Futures has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 1.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 93. 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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