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Science Technology and Human Values is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 0162-2439Verify ISSN ↗1552-8251Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 3 / 536 | 99th | Q1 |
| Philosophy | 10 / 891 | 98th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 31 / 744 | 95th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 64 / 1530 | 95th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 96 / 755 | 87th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 59 / 196 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.1.
Science Technology and Human Values is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 3 of 536), Q1 in Philosophy (rank 10 of 891) and Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 31 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Science Technology and Human Values 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 8.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.141, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 99.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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.
Science Technology and Human Values is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 0162-2439 and its online ISSN is 1552-8251.
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 rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Business systems in context.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Innovation field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Science Technology and Human Values has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 1.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Science Technology and Human Values published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 87. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.5%), United Kingdom (13.1%) and Netherlands (10.3%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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