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Journal of Comparative Family Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Toronto Press.
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ISSN 0047-2328Verify ISSN ↗1929-9850Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 140 / 536 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 661 / 1530 | 56th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 219 / 315 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 1976–2024, 1973), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Comparative Family Studies is Q2 in Anthropology (rank 140 of 536), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 661 of 1530) and Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 219 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Comparative Family Studies 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.266, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 54.
Journal of Comparative Family Studies is published by University of Toronto Press. Its print ISSN is 0047-2328 and its online ISSN is 1929-9850.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Comparative Family Studies has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #141 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Journal of Comparative Family Studies published 5 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 37. 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 (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (18.1%), South Korea (16.7%) and Canada (9.8%).
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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