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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 0276-5624Verify ISSN ↗1878-5654Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$4,070 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 168 / 744 | 77th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 349 / 1530 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 168 of 744) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 349 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.922, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,070 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0276-5624 and its online ISSN is 1878-5654.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility has an h-index of 78 and a 2-year mean of 2.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 84. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (16.8%), United States (14.8%) and Italy (8.1%).
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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