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Informacao e Sociedade is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS SSCI. Published by Universidade Federal de Campina Grande.
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ISSN 0104-0146Verify ISSN ↗1809-4783Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1496 / 1530 | 2nd | Q4 |
| Communication | 534 / 541 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Informacao e Sociedade is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1496 of 1530) and Q4 in Communication (rank 534 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Informacao e Sociedade is indexed in the 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 2nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.107, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Informacao e Sociedade is published by Universidade Federal de Campina Grande. Its print ISSN is 0104-0146 and its online ISSN is 1809-4783.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Informacao e Sociedade has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,226 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Informacao e Sociedade published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 71. 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 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (90.2%), Spain (5.7%) and Colombia (2.3%). 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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