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Social Science and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.2), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier ScienceDirect.
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ISSN 0277-9536Verify ISSN ↗1873-5347Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier ScienceDirect
Cost to publish: About US$3,800 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 4 / 254 | 98th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 18 / 387 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present (also 1967–1980), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.2.
Social Science and Medicine is Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 4 of 254) and Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 18 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Science and Medicine is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.851, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 309.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,800 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 Science and Medicine is published by Elsevier ScienceDirect. Its print ISSN is 0277-9536 and its online ISSN is 1873-5347.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other economics.
It is graded 4 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 Science and Medicine has an h-index of 394 and a 2-year mean of 3.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Social Science and Medicine published 1,025 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (30.6%), United Kingdom (10.2%) and Canada (9.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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