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Cogent Social Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Cogent OA.
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ISSN 2331-1886Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cogent OA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 62 / 286 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Cogent Social Sciences is Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 62 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Cogent Social Sciences 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.486, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 43.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,165 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.
Cogent Social Sciences is published by Cogent OA. Its ISSN is 2331-1886.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cogent Social Sciences has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 3.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Cogent Social Sciences published 515 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 596. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (21.8%), China (8.7%) and United States (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 16 retracted papers are recorded (5.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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