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Journal of Human Values is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.2), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.
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ISSN 0971-6858Verify ISSN ↗0973-0737Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 179 / 1434 | 87th | Q1 |
| Philosophy | 136 / 891 | 84th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 582 / 1530 | 61st | Q2 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 153 / 254 | 39th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 206 / 315 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.2.
Journal of Human Values is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 179 of 1434), Q1 in Philosophy (rank 136 of 891) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 582 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Human Values is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.328, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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 Human Values is published by Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0971-6858 and its online ISSN is 0973-0737.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Human Values has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 1.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Human Values published 40 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (59.5%), United States (6.1%) and Hungary (5.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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