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Discover Social Science and Health is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2731-0469Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 403 / 744 | 45th | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 271 / 387 | 30th | Q3 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 521 / 725 | 28th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 240 / 330 | 27th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Discover Social Science and Health is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 403 of 744), Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 271 of 387) and Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 521 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Discover Social Science and Health 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.471, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,490 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 Social Science and Health is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2731-0469.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover Social Science and Health has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 1.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #175 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Discover Social Science and Health published 196 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (18%), Ghana (9.5%) and Bangladesh (7.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (4.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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