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BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0759-1063Verify ISSN ↗2070-2779Verify 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 | 763 / 1530 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 763 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.266, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
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.
BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0759-1063 and its online ISSN is 2070-2779.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #758 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 66. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from France (58.1%), United States (9.1%) and United Kingdom (5.9%). 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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