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International Journal of Social Quality (United States) is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), DOAJ. Published by Berghahn Journals.
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ISSN 1757-0344Verify ISSN ↗1757-0352Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 593 / 1530 | 61st | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 424 / 876 | 51st | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 211 / 387 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2024 (also 2019), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
International Journal of Social Quality (United States) is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 593 of 1530), Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 424 of 876) and Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 211 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Social Quality (United States) 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 Q2, 61st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.164, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
International Journal of Social Quality (United States) is published by Berghahn Journals. Its print ISSN is 1757-0344 and its online ISSN is 1757-0352.
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 Quality (United States) has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,281 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
International Journal of Social Quality (United States) published 13 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 19. 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.
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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