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Good Society is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Penn State University Press.
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ISSN 1089-0017Verify ISSN ↗1538-9731Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 767 / 891 | 13th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1459 / 1530 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Good Society is Q4 in Philosophy (rank 767 of 891) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1459 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Good Society 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Good Society is published by Penn State University Press. Its print ISSN is 1089-0017 and its online ISSN is 1538-9731.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Good Society has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #621 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Good Society published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 43. 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 21 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from United States (81%), Nigeria (4.8%) and Japan (4.8%). 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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