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Nordic Social Work Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by UBM Exhibition Singapore PTE LTD.
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ISSN 2156-857XVerify ISSN ↗2156-8588Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: UBM Exhibition Singapore PTE LTD
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 118 / 744 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Nordic Social Work Research is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 118 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Nordic Social Work Research is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.699, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
Nordic Social Work Research is published by UBM Exhibition Singapore PTE LTD. Its print ISSN is 2156-857X and its online ISSN is 2156-8588.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nordic Social Work Research has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #241 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Nordic Social Work Research published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 64. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (41.9%), Norway (26.8%) and Finland (19.7%).
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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