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Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Nigerian Economic Society.
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ISSN 0029-0092Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nigerian Economic Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 568 / 744 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1205 / 1530 | 21st | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 698 / 755 | 7th | Q4 |
| Finance | 322 / 342 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 1996–2009, 1992, 1984–1988, 1982, 1974–1977, 1967), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies is Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 568 of 744), Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1205 of 1530) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 698 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.119, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies is published by Nigerian Economic Society. Its ISSN is 0029-0092.
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.
Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #661 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies published 1 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2001 with 23. 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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