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Papers is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0210-2862Verify ISSN ↗2013-9004Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 320 / 744 | 57th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 673 / 1530 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Papers is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 320 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 673 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Papers 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.273, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
Papers is published by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Its print ISSN is 0210-2862 and its online ISSN is 2013-9004.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Papers has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #387 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Papers published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 40. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Spain (79.6%), Argentina (7.7%) and Chile (4.6%). 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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