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Social Network Analysis and Mining is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Springer-Verlag Wien.
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ISSN 1869-5450Verify ISSN ↗1869-5469Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 28 / 541 | 94th | Q1 |
| Media Technology | 9 / 83 | 89th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 192 / 1022 | 81st | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 103 / 519 | 80th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 57 / 196 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.4.
Social Network Analysis and Mining is Q1 in Communication (rank 28 of 541), Q1 in Media Technology (rank 9 of 83) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 192 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Social Network Analysis and Mining is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 8.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.675, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 61.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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 Network Analysis and Mining is published by Springer-Verlag Wien. Its print ISSN is 1869-5450 and its online ISSN is 1869-5469.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Network Analysis and Mining has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 5.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Social Network Analysis and Mining published 144 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 224. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (18.1%), India (7.1%) and China (6.5%).
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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