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Global Responsibility to Protect

Brill Academic Publishers · Netherlands · Est. 2009

ISSN1875-9858eISSN1875-984X

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.471

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.864

Total Worksi

500

Total Citationsi

3,736

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.25

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: International Relations; Law; Political Science; Political Science and International Relations.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2009

Annual Volume~ 26 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications500

Publisher OrgBrill

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Brill Academic Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1875-9858 / 1875-984X

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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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

107

2019

205

2020

134

2021

170

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

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.

Political Science and International RelationsQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

International RelationsLawPolitical Science

Scopus Categories

Political Science and International Relations

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Global Peace and Security DynamicsPeacebuilding and International SecurityInternational Law and Human RightsInternational Development and AidDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationLegal Cases and CommentaryAsian Geopolitics and EthnographyHistorical and Contemporary Political DynamicsHuman Rights and Development

Frequently asked questions about Global Responsibility to Protect

Is Global Responsibility to Protect a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Global Responsibility to Protect: it is indexed in Web of Science, 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 Global Responsibility to Protect?

Global Responsibility to Protect is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.25.

Is Global Responsibility to Protect indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Global Responsibility to Protect is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Global Responsibility to Protect?