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Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), DOAJ. Published by Institut fur Klinische Sychologie and Gemeindesychologie.
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ISSN 1438-5627Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institut fur Klinische Sychologie and Gemeindesychologie
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 97 / 286 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung is Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 97 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2, 66th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.545, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 65.
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung is published by Institut fur Klinische Sychologie and Gemeindesychologie. Its ISSN is 1438-5627.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #231 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 17. 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 17 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (52.9%), Iran (35.3%) and Germany (5.9%). 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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