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Nordic Journal of Social Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.3), DOAJ. Published by Scandinavian University Press.
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ISSN 1892-2783Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Scandinavian University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 110 / 536 | 79th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 260 / 744 | 65th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 557 / 1530 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 204 / 387 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.3.
Nordic Journal of Social Research is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 110 of 536), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 260 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 557 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nordic Journal of Social Research 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 0.234, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Nordic Journal of Social Research is published by Scandinavian University Press. Its ISSN is 1892-2783.
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.
Nordic Journal of Social Research has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 1.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Nordic Journal of Social Research published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 14. 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 39 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Norway (37.2%), Sweden (25.6%) and Denmark (17.9%).
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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