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Journal of Social Ontology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), DOAJ. Published by University of Vienna.
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ISSN 2196-9663Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Vienna
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 283 / 891 | 68th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 416 / 1137 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 261 / 536 | 51st | Q2 |
| Communication | 356 / 541 | 34th | Q3 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 214 / 283 | 24th | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 271 / 315 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Social Ontology is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 283 of 891), Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 416 of 1137) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 261 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Social Ontology 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 0.9, quartile Q2, 68th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.247, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of Social Ontology is published by University of Vienna. Its ISSN is 2196-9663.
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 Ontology has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #698 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of Social Ontology published 12 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 26. 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 15 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from France (16.7%), United Kingdom (16.7%) and United States (13.3%).
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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