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Human Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1210-3055Verify ISSN ↗1337-401XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 251 / 891 | 71st | Q2 |
| Law | 623 / 1162 | 46th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 921 / 1530 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001 (also 2007–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Human Affairs is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 251 of 891), Q3 in Law (rank 623 of 1162) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 921 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Affairs 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 1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.170, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Human Affairs is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1210-3055 and its online ISSN is 1337-401X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Human Affairs has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #284 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Human Affairs published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 60. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Slovakia (19.3%), United Kingdom (10.3%) and Czechia (9.6%).
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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