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Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 0163-786XVerify ISSN ↗1875-7871Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1501 / 1530 | 1st | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 733 / 745 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2021, 2010–2019, 2007–2008, 2003–2005, 2000–2001), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1501 of 1530) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 733 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 1st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0163-786X and its online ISSN is 1875-7871.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,260 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change published 11 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 35. 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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