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Ethics and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 3091-3322Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 49 / 891 | 94th | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 20 / 254 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 161 / 744 | 78th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 343 / 1530 | 77th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 150 / 317 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Ethics and Society is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 49 of 891), Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 20 of 254) and Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 161 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Ethics and Society is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject.
Ethics and Society is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its ISSN is 3091-3322.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Ethics and Society has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #455 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
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 23 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (17.8%), France (9.1%) and China (8.7%).
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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