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Asian Journal of Social Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.4), ABDC C, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 1568-4849Verify ISSN ↗1568-5314Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$2,760 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 104 / 536 | 80th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 532 / 1530 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present (also 1973–1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.4.
Asian Journal of Social Science is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 104 of 536) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 532 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Journal of Social Science 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.345, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,760 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.
Asian Journal of Social Science is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 1568-4849 and its online ISSN is 1568-5314.
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.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Journal of Social Science has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Asian Journal of Social Science published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 76. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (20.2%), India (13.8%) and Singapore (10.7%).
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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