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Journal of Family Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Bamberg.
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ISSN 2699-2337Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Bamberg
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 533 / 744 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal of Family Research is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 533 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Family Research 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 28th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.265, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of Family Research is published by University of Bamberg. Its ISSN is 2699-2337.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Family Research has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 1.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #272 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Family Research published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 75. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Germany (38%), Netherlands (9.2%) and Finland (7.7%).
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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