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Russian Sociological Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).
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ISSN 1728-192XVerify ISSN ↗1728-1938Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 240 / 891 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 387 / 1434 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 897 / 1530 | 41st | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 172 / 286 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 2001–2003), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.1.
Russian Sociological Review is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 240 of 891), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 387 of 1434) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 897 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Russian Sociological Review 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.410, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
Russian Sociological Review is published by National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University). Its print ISSN is 1728-192X and its online ISSN is 1728-1938.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Russian Sociological Review has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #149 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Russian Sociological Review published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 105. 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 42 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (75%), Kyrgyzstan (3.6%) and Türkiye (2.4%). 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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