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Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Universiti Putra Malaysia.
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ISSN 0128-7702Verify ISSN ↗2231-8534Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 22 / 175 | 87th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 130 / 286 | 54th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 146 / 289 | 49th | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 162 / 235 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 22 of 175), Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 130 of 286) and Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 146 of 289), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.265, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities is published by Universiti Putra Malaysia. Its print ISSN is 0128-7702 and its online ISSN is 2231-8534.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities published 133 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 194. 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.
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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