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Life Course Research and Social Policies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 2211-7776Verify ISSN ↗2211-7784Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | 45 / 140 | 68th | Q2 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 36 / 61 | 41st | 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 2020–2024 (also 2013–2018), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Life Course Research and Social Policies is Q2 in Demography (rank 45 of 140) and Q3 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 36 of 61), by CiteScore 2025.
Life Course Research and Social Policies 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 2.6, quartile Q2, 68th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Life Course Research and Social Policies is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 2211-7776 and its online ISSN is 2211-7784.
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.
Life Course Research and Social Policies has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 137 Scopus journals in Demography.
Life Course Research and Social Policies published 11 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 46. 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.
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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