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Emotions and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Policy Press.
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ISSN 2631-6897Verify ISSN ↗2631-6900Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Policy Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 92 / 1434 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 153 / 744 | 79th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 335 / 1530 | 78th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 128 / 315 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
Emotions and Society is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 92 of 1434), Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 153 of 744) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 335 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Emotions and Society 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.511, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
Emotions and Society is published by Policy Press. Its print ISSN is 2631-6897 and its online ISSN is 2631-6900.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Emotions and Society has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 1.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #176 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Emotions and Society published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 42. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (21%), Germany (16.2%) and Australia (12.5%).
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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