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Nordic Welfare Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Scandinavian University Press.
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ISSN 2464-4161Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Scandinavian University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 401 / 744 | 46th | Q3 |
| Demography | 80 / 140 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 270 / 387 | 30th | Q3 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 48 / 61 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Nordic Welfare Research is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 401 of 744), Q3 in Demography (rank 80 of 140) and Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 270 of 387), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nordic Welfare 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.250, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Nordic Welfare Research is published by Scandinavian University Press. Its ISSN is 2464-4161.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nordic Welfare Research has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 1.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #153 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Nordic Welfare Research published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 32. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Norway (54.7%), Sweden (15.3%) and Denmark (14.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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