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Contemporary Social Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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ISSN 2158-2041Verify ISSN ↗2158-205XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 5 / 1936 | 99th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 24 / 286 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
Contemporary Social Science is Q1 in History (rank 5 of 1936) and Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 24 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Social Science 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.876, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
Contemporary Social Science is published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Its print ISSN is 2158-2041 and its online ISSN is 2158-205X.
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.
Contemporary Social Science has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 4.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Contemporary Social Science published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 61. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (52.6%), United States (8.8%) and Germany (5.5%). 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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