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Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
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ISSN 0023-2653Verify ISSN ↗1861-891XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 577 / 1530 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 205 / 315 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1992–1993, 1988–1989, 1983), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 577 of 1530) and Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 205 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.381, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie is published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. Its print ISSN is 0023-2653 and its online ISSN is 1861-891X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 1.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #337 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 106. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (75.9%), United Kingdom (5%) and United States (4.7%). 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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