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Berliner Journal fur Soziologie is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0863-1808Verify ISSN ↗1862-2593Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 573 / 1530 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1996–1999, 1992–1993), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Berliner Journal fur Soziologie is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 573 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Berliner Journal fur Soziologie 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.464, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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.
Berliner Journal fur Soziologie is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0863-1808 and its online ISSN is 1862-2593.
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.
Berliner Journal fur Soziologie has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #373 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Berliner Journal fur Soziologie published 40 papers in 2025. 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 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (77.6%), Austria (6.1%) and United States (5.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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