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International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1). Published by IGI Global Publishing.
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ISSN 1947-8402Verify ISSN ↗1947-8410Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IGI Global Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 163 / 314 | 48th | Q3 |
| Ecology | 274 / 491 | 44th | Q3 |
| Environmental Engineering | 147 / 241 | 39th | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 272 / 432 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2024, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development is Q3 in Development (rank 163 of 314), Q3 in Ecology (rank 274 of 491) and Q3 in Environmental Engineering (rank 147 of 241), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development 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 2.1, quartile Q3, 48th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.162, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development is published by IGI Global Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1947-8402 and its online ISSN is 1947-8410.
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.
International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development published 4 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 140. 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 98 research articles (2022–2024), authors are most often from India (58.8%), Brazil (6.1%) and Malaysia (3.6%). 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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