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Social Networks is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0378-8733Verify ISSN ↗1879-2111Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,520 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 13 / 536 | 97th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 136 / 1530 | 91st | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 30 / 286 | 89th | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 37 / 220 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Social Networks is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 13 of 536), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 136 of 1530) and Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 30 of 286), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Social Networks 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.203, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 123.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,520 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 Networks is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0378-8733 and its online ISSN is 1879-2111.
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 graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Networks has an h-index of 175 and a 2-year mean of 1.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Social Networks published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 95. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (39.3%), Germany (9.5%) and Netherlands (7.6%).
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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