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Mathematical Social Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0165-4896Verify ISSN ↗1879-3118Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$2,850 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 886 / 1530 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 170 / 286 | 40th | Q3 |
| Psychology (all) | 162 / 220 | 26th | Q3 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 146 / 178 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Mathematical Social Sciences is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 886 of 1530), Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 170 of 286) and Q3 in Psychology (all) (rank 162 of 220), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Mathematical Social Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.249, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,850 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.
Mathematical Social Sciences is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0165-4896 and its online ISSN is 1879-3118.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Mathematical Social Sciences has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #632 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Mathematical Social Sciences published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 77. 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 84 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from France (12.3%), United States (11.1%) and Japan (11%).
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.
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