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Capital and Class is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 0309-8168Verify ISSN ↗2041-0980Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 59 / 1936 | 96th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 462 / 1530 | 69th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 370 / 755 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.8.
Capital and Class is Q1 in History (rank 59 of 1936), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 462 of 1530) and Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 370 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Capital and Class 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.529, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
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.
Capital and Class is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 0309-8168 and its online ISSN is 2041-0980.
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.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Capital and Class has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 0.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #196 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Capital and Class published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 74. 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 86 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (23.1%), United States (10.3%) and Canada (10.3%).
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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