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International Social Security Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0020-871XVerify ISSN ↗1468-246XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 514 / 1530 | 66th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 120 / 283 | 57th | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 116 / 248 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
International Social Security Review is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 514 of 1530), Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 120 of 283) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 116 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
International Social Security Review is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.385, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 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.
International Social Security Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0020-871X and its online ISSN is 1468-246X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Social Security Review has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #581 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
International Social Security Review published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 40. 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 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Switzerland (15.6%), United States (13.3%) and Netherlands (9.2%).
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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