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Journal of Social Marketing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.2), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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ISSN 2042-6763Verify ISSN ↗2042-6771Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 105 / 317 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.2.
Journal of Social Marketing is Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 105 of 317), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Social Marketing 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.781, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
Journal of Social Marketing is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Its print ISSN is 2042-6763 and its online ISSN is 2042-6771.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Marketing field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Social Marketing has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 2.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #115 of 291 Scopus journals in Management of Technology and Innovation.
Journal of Social Marketing published 37 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Australia (27%), United States (17%) and United Kingdom (8.5%).
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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