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Social Science Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), DOAJ. Published by Slovenian Sociological Association.
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ISSN 0352-3608Verify ISSN ↗1581-968XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Slovenian Sociological Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 406 / 1434 | 71st | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 439 / 744 | 40th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 920 / 1530 | 39th | Q3 |
| Communication | 332 / 541 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Social Science Forum is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 406 of 1434), Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 439 of 744) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 920 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Social Science Forum is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2, 71st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Social Science Forum is published by Slovenian Sociological Association. Its print ISSN is 0352-3608 and its online ISSN is 1581-968X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Social Science Forum has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,011 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Social Science Forum published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 20. 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 34 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from Slovenia (75%), Croatia (5.9%) and United Kingdom (5.9%). 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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