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Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), DOAJ. Published by Johar Education Society Pakistan.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1997-8553Verify ISSN ↗2309-8619Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johar Education Society Pakistan
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 114 / 235 | 51st | Q2 |
| Finance | 168 / 342 | 51st | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 376 / 755 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences is Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 114 of 235), Q2 in Finance (rank 168 of 342) and Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 376 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences 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 2.7, quartile Q2, 51st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.334, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences is published by Johar Education Society Pakistan. Its print ISSN is 1997-8553 and its online ISSN is 2309-8619.
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.
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 3.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Pakistan (41%), Malaysia (14.6%) and Türkiye (5.9%).
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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