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Social Cognition is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SSCI. Published by Guilford Publications.
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ISSN 0278-016XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 278 / 380 | 26th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 234 / 315 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Social Cognition is Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 278 of 380) and Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 234 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Cognition 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 26th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.409, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 95.
Social Cognition is published by Guilford Publications. Its ISSN is 0278-016X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Cognition has an h-index of 131 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #265 of 373 Scopus journals in Developmental and Educational Psychology.
Social Cognition published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 54. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (55.8%), Germany (10.8%) and Canada (7%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (2.1 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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