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Comparative Sociology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1569-1322Verify ISSN ↗1569-1330Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 887 / 1530 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1989, 1987, 1984, 1981, 1976–1977, 1970), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Comparative Sociology is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 887 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Comparative Sociology 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.190, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 33.
Comparative Sociology is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1569-1322 and its online ISSN is 1569-1330.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Comparative Sociology has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #686 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Comparative Sociology published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 38. 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 United States (15.5%), Russia (8.9%) and Japan (7%).
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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