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Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1389-6903Verify ISSN ↗2542-839XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 459 / 744 | 38th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 965 / 1530 | 36th | Q3 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 90 / 118 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 268 / 315 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2023, 2021, 2013–2019, 2009–2011, 2005–2007), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 459 of 744), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 965 of 1530) and Q4 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 90 of 118), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research 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 0.9, quartile Q3, 38th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1389-6903 and its online ISSN is 2542-839X.
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.
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 1.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #137 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 157. 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.
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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