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Discover Global Society is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.2), DOAJ. Published by Discover.
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ISSN 2731-9687Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Discover
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 210 / 536 | 60th | Q2 |
| Gender Studies | 117 / 233 | 50th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 410 / 744 | 44th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 843 / 1530 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.2.
Discover Global Society is Q2 in Anthropology (rank 210 of 536), Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 117 of 233) and Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 410 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Discover Global Society 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 1.2, quartile Q2, 60th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.356, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,390 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.
Discover Global Society is published by Discover. Its ISSN is 2731-9687.
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.
Discover Global Society has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 2.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Discover Global Society published 180 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from India (20.3%), Ethiopia (13%) and Ghana (6.3%).
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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