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Armed Forces and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0095-327XVerify ISSN ↗1556-0848Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 359 / 1530 | 76th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 178 / 744 | 76th | Q1 |
| Safety Research | 43 / 108 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Armed Forces and Society is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 359 of 1530), Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 178 of 744) and Q2 in Safety Research (rank 43 of 108), by CiteScore 2025.
Armed Forces and Society is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.653, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 54.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Armed Forces and Society is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0095-327X and its online ISSN is 1556-0848.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Armed Forces and Society has an h-index of 71 and a 2-year mean of 1.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #390 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Armed Forces and Society published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 81. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (33.5%), Israel (14.1%) and United Kingdom (7.5%).
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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