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Balkan Social Science Review is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1). Published by Goce Delchev University of Shtip.
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Publisher: Goce Delchev University of Shtip
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 603 / 1162 | 48th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 428 / 744 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 432 / 745 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 892 / 1530 | 41st | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 176 / 248 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Balkan Social Science Review is Q3 in Law (rank 603 of 1162), Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 428 of 744) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 432 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Balkan 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 Q3, 48th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.205, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Balkan Social Science Review is published by Goce Delchev University of Shtip. Its print ISSN is 1857-8772 and its online ISSN is 1857-8799.
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.
Balkan Social Science Review has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #496 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Balkan Social Science Review published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 43. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from North Macedonia (11.9%), Albania (10.5%) and Ukraine (7.9%).
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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