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Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1948-822XVerify ISSN ↗2334-2315Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 350 / 1530 | 77th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 171 / 744 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 350 of 1530) and Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 171 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.702, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 35.
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 1948-822X and its online ISSN is 2334-2315.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #632 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research published 79 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 94. 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 22 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (88.6%), Türkiye (4.5%) and Israel (4.5%). 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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