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Social Choice and Welfare is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.9), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0176-1714Verify ISSN ↗1432-217XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$2,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 308 / 744 | 58th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 474 / 755 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.9.
Social Choice and Welfare is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 308 of 744) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 474 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Choice and Welfare 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.489, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 64.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,890 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.
Social Choice and Welfare is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0176-1714 and its online ISSN is 1432-217X.
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 Applied economics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Choice and Welfare has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #289 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Social Choice and Welfare published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 84. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from France (13.3%), United States (10.9%) and United Kingdom (9.8%).
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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