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North Korean Review

McFarland and Company, Inc · United States · Est. 2005

ISSN1551-2789

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.107

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.845

Total Worksi

240

Total Citationsi

767

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

North Korean Review is the first academic journal in North America or Europe to focus exclusively on North Korea. The purpose of NKR is to provide readers with an improved understanding of the country’s complexities and the threat it presents to global stability. International and interdisciplinary, NKR is a refereed journal covering culture, history, economics, business, religion, politics and international relations, among other topics.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2005

Frequencytwice a year

StatusActive (last: 2021)

Total Publications240

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Reviewrefereed

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

7/11 · 64%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

McFarland and Company, Inc

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1551-2789

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

refereed

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

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2021

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

HistoryQ3

Cultural StudiesQ4

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q4

Political Science and International RelationsQ4

Sociology and Political ScienceQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceEconomics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)HistoryCultural StudiesPolitical Science and International Relations

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Korean Peninsula Historical and Political StudiesEconomic Sanctions and International RelationsAsian Industrial and Economic DevelopmentNuclear Issues and DefenseInternational Relations and Foreign PolicyAsian Culture and Media StudiesInnovation in Digital Healthcare SystemsEconomic Zones and Regional DevelopmentNuclear and radioactivity studiesQualitative Research Methods and Ethics

Frequently asked questions about North Korean Review

Is North Korean Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for North Korean Review: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of North Korean Review?

North Korean Review is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.107.

Is North Korean Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

North Korean Review is indexed in Scopus.