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Journal of Comparative Social Work is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), DOAJ. Published by University of Stavanger, Department of Social Studies.
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ISSN 0809-9936Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Stavanger, Department of Social Studies
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 580 / 744 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1231 / 1530 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Comparative Social Work is Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 580 of 744) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1231 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Comparative Social Work 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.258, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of Comparative Social Work is published by University of Stavanger, Department of Social Studies. Its ISSN is 0809-9936.
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.
Journal of Comparative Social Work has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #415 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Comparative Social Work published 27 papers in 2025. 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 63 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Norway (42.1%), Tanzania (6.3%) and Denmark (6.3%).
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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