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International Journal of Social Pedagogy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), DOAJ. Published by UCL Press.
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ISSN 2051-5804Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: UCL Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 333 / 744 | 55th | Q2 |
| Education | 972 / 1698 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
International Journal of Social Pedagogy is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 333 of 744) and Q3 in Education (rank 972 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Social Pedagogy 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 1.7, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.271, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
International Journal of Social Pedagogy is published by UCL Press. Its ISSN is 2051-5804.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Social Pedagogy has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #307 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
International Journal of Social Pedagogy published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 23. 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 89 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (27%), Finland (10.1%) and United States (9%).
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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