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Migration and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.3), DOAJ. Published by Berghahn Journals.
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Publisher: Berghahn Journals
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 108 / 536 | 79th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 407 / 876 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.3.
Migration and Society is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 108 of 536) and Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 407 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Migration and Society 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 2.3, quartile Q1, 79th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.419, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
Migration and Society is published by Berghahn Journals. Its print ISSN is 2574-1306 and its online ISSN is 2574-1314.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Migration and Society has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 1.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #100 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Migration and Society published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 42. 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 42 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (23.8%), United States (20.2%) and Denmark (16.7%).
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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