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Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). Published by Western Michigan University.
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ISSN 0191-5096Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Western Michigan University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 438 / 744 | 41st | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 918 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1995, 1977), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 438 of 744) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 918 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 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 1, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.201, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 38.
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare is published by Western Michigan University. Its ISSN is 0191-5096.
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 Sociology and Social Welfare has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #146 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 83. 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 82 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (76.8%), Canada (6.1%) and Indonesia (2.4%). 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.
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