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Social Dynamics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Centre for African Studies.
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ISSN 0253-3952Verify ISSN ↗1940-7874Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Centre for African Studies
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 394 / 744 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Social Dynamics is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 394 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Dynamics 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.196, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 33.
Social Dynamics is published by Centre for African Studies. Its print ISSN is 0253-3952 and its online ISSN is 1940-7874.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Dynamics has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #408 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Social Dynamics published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 41. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (67.4%), United States (8.2%) and Uganda (4.7%). 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. 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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