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FWU Journal of Social Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University.
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ISSN 1995-1272Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 45 / 1936 | 97th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 198 / 744 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 420 / 1530 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 38 / 118 | 68th | Q2 |
| Education | 619 / 1698 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
FWU Journal of Social Sciences is Q1 in History (rank 45 of 1936), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 198 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 420 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
FWU Journal of Social Sciences 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.356, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
FWU Journal of Social Sciences is published by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University. Its ISSN is 1995-1272.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
FWU Journal of Social Sciences has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
FWU Journal of Social Sciences published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 52. 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 65 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Pakistan (40.8%), Türkiye (12.3%) and Indonesia (9.2%).
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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