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Social and Economic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), ABDC C. Published by Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies.
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ISSN 0037-7651Verify ISSN ↗2662-8988Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 278 / 286 | 2nd | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 747 / 755 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–2024 (also 1977–1986, 1974), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Social and Economic Studies is Q4 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 278 of 286) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 747 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Social and Economic Studies 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, 2nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Social and Economic Studies is published by Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies. Its print ISSN is 0037-7651 and its online ISSN is 2662-8988.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social and Economic Studies has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #250 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Social and Economic Studies published 5 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 26. 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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