Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Journal of Trust Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2151-5581Verify ISSN ↗2151-559XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 150 / 1530 | 90th | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 43 / 235 | 81st | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 60 / 315 | 81st | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 61 / 258 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Journal of Trust Research is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 150 of 1530), Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 43 of 235) and Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 60 of 315), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Trust Research is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.067, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 30.
Journal of Trust Research is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 2151-5581 and its online ISSN is 2151-559X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Business systems in context.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Trust Research has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 4.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Trust Research published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 18. 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 57 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.9%), Germany (14.8%) and Sweden (5.8%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.