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Global Social Challenges Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Policy Press.
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ISSN 2752-3349Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Policy Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 71 / 745 | 90th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 185 / 1530 | 87th | Q1 |
| Development | 58 / 314 | 81st | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 174 / 876 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Global Social Challenges Journal is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 71 of 745), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 185 of 1530) and Q1 in Development (rank 58 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Global Social Challenges Journal 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.949, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
Global Social Challenges Journal is published by Policy Press. Its ISSN is 2752-3349.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Global Social Challenges Journal has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 1.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Global Social Challenges Journal published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 29. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (27.5%), United States (9.3%) and Switzerland (5.9%).
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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