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Social Behavior and Personality is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SSCI. Published by Scientific Journal Publishers.
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ISSN 0301-2212Verify ISSN ↗1179-6391Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Scientific Journal Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 226 / 315 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1992), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Social Behavior and Personality is Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 226 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Behavior and Personality 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 28th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.354, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 81.
Social Behavior and Personality is published by Scientific Journal Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0301-2212 and its online ISSN is 1179-6391.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Behavior and Personality has an h-index of 110 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #198 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
Social Behavior and Personality published 207 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 213. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (75.4%), Malaysia (7.5%) and Taiwan (5%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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