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Social Sciences and Missions is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1874-8937Verify ISSN ↗1874-8945Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 336 / 760 | 55th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 762 / 1434 | 46th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 580 / 744 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1231 / 1530 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Social Sciences and Missions is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 336 of 760), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 762 of 1434) and Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 580 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Social Sciences and Missions 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.153, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Social Sciences and Missions is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1874-8937 and its online ISSN is 1874-8945.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Sciences and Missions has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #452 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Social Sciences and Missions published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 39. 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from France (43.4%), Switzerland (8.8%) and United States (7.4%).
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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