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Changing Societies and Personalities is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Ural Federal University.
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ISSN 2587-6104Verify ISSN ↗2587-8964Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ural Federal University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 402 / 1434 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 916 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 261 / 315 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Changing Societies and Personalities is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 402 of 1434), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 916 of 1530) and Q4 in Social Psychology (rank 261 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Changing Societies and Personalities 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.182, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Changing Societies and Personalities is published by Ural Federal University. Its print ISSN is 2587-6104 and its online ISSN is 2587-8964.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Changing Societies and Personalities has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #299 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Changing Societies and Personalities published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 55. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (53.1%), Indonesia (15.3%) and Kazakhstan (4.1%). 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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