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Journal of Social Studies Education Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1). Published by Association for Social Studies Educa.
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ISSN 1309-9108Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association for Social Studies Educa
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 194 / 744 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Education | 612 / 1698 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Social Studies Education Research is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 194 of 744) and Q2 in Education (rank 612 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Social Studies Education Research 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, 73rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.406, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Journal of Social Studies Education Research is published by Association for Social Studies Educa. Its ISSN is 1309-9108.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Social Studies Education Research has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #661 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Social Studies Education Research published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 14. 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 13 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Kazakhstan (38.5%), United States (23.1%) and Indonesia (19.2%).
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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