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Contemporary Social Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), DOAJ. Published by Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences.
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ISSN 2096-0212Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 426 / 692 | 38th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 637 / 744 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Contemporary Social Sciences is Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 426 of 692) and Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 637 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Social Sciences is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3, 38th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.110, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Contemporary Social Sciences is published by Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences. Its ISSN is 2096-0212.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Contemporary Social Sciences has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #450 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Contemporary Social Sciences published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 84. 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 80 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (60.6%), Nepal (30%) and Japan (2.5%). 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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