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Journal of Biosocial Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0021-9320Verify ISSN ↗1469-7599Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 61 / 286 | 78th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 235 / 725 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Journal of Biosocial Science is Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 61 of 286) and Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 235 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Biosocial Science 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.470, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 67.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Journal of Biosocial Science is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0021-9320 and its online ISSN is 1469-7599.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Biosocial Science has an h-index of 92 and a 2-year mean of 2.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Journal of Biosocial Science published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 88. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (17.7%), United States (16.5%) and United Kingdom (11.7%).
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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