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Empiria is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED).
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ISSN 1139-5737Verify ISSN ↗2174-0682Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 166 / 286 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Empiria is Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 166 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Empiria 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.210, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Empiria is published by Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED). Its print ISSN is 1139-5737 and its online ISSN is 2174-0682.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Empiria has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Empiria published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 47. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from Spain (65%), Mexico (6.5%) and Argentina (6.5%). 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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