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Families, Relationships and Societies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SSCI. Published by The Policy Press.
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ISSN 2046-7435Verify ISSN ↗2046-7443Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Policy Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 476 / 1530 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Families, Relationships and Societies is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 476 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Families, Relationships and Societies is indexed in the 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.538, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
Families, Relationships and Societies is published by The Policy Press. Its print ISSN is 2046-7435 and its online ISSN is 2046-7443.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Families, Relationships and Societies has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #268 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Families, Relationships and Societies published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (29.6%), United States (9.5%) and Germany (7.9%).
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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