Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Journal of Social Computing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), DOAJ. Published by Tsinghua University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2688-5255Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tsinghua University Press
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 154 / 541 | 71st | Q2 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 248 / 568 | 56th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 247 / 519 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 528 / 1022 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Social Computing is Q2 in Communication (rank 154 of 541), Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 248 of 568) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 247 of 519), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Social Computing 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 3.1, quartile Q2, 71st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.301, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
Journal of Social Computing is published by Tsinghua University Press. Its ISSN is 2688-5255.
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 Social Computing has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #174 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Journal of Social Computing published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 40. 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (36.1%), United States (26.9%) and United Kingdom (7.5%).
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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.