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Revista de Ciencias Sociales is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), DOAJ. Published by Universidad del Zulia.
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ISSN 1315-9518Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad del Zulia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 206 / 744 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 87 / 286 | 69th | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 101 / 248 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Revista de Ciencias Sociales is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 206 of 744), Q2 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 87 of 286) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 101 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Revista de Ciencias Sociales 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 3, quartile Q2, 72nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.314, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
Revista de Ciencias Sociales is published by Universidad del Zulia. Its ISSN is 1315-9518.
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.
Revista de Ciencias Sociales has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #642 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Revista de Ciencias Sociales published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 137. 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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