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Journal of Digital Social Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), DOAJ. Published by DIGSUM (Centre for Digital Social Research), Umea University.
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ISSN 2003-1998Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: DIGSUM (Centre for Digital Social Research), Umea University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Studies | 71 / 233 | 69th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 526 / 1530 | 65th | Q2 |
| Communication | 205 / 541 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Journal of Digital Social Research is Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 71 of 233), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 526 of 1530) and Q2 in Communication (rank 205 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Digital Social Research 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 2.4, quartile Q2, 69th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.383, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Journal of Digital Social Research is published by DIGSUM (Centre for Digital Social Research), Umea University. Its ISSN is 2003-1998.
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 Digital Social Research has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 2.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 225 Scopus journals in Gender Studies.
Journal of Digital Social Research published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 39. 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 89 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Canada (19.1%), Sweden (12.4%) and United States (10.5%).
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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