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Asia-Pacific Social Science Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1). Published by De la Salle University.
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ISSN 0119-8386Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De la Salle University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 277 / 1936 | 85th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 426 / 745 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 876 / 1530 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 596 / 755 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Asia-Pacific Social Science Review is Q1 in History (rank 277 of 1936), Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 426 of 745) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 876 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Asia-Pacific Social Science Review 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 1.1, quartile Q1, 85th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.207, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
Asia-Pacific Social Science Review is published by De la Salle University. Its ISSN is 0119-8386.
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.
Asia-Pacific Social Science Review has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Asia-Pacific Social Science Review published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2009 with 20. 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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