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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Springer Nature.
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Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 3 / 175 | 98th | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 32 / 289 | 89th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 37 / 286 | 87th | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 46 / 220 | 79th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 70 / 235 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 3 of 175), Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 32 of 289) and Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 37 of 286), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.904, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,890 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.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2662-9992.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications has an h-index of 111 and a 2-year mean of 5.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications published 2,121 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (44.7%), United States (5.7%) and Türkiye (4.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 38 retracted papers are recorded (4.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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