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Social Security Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8). Published by US Social Security Administration.
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ISSN 0037-7910Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: US Social Security Administration
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 471 / 744 | 36th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 191 / 248 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present (also 1971, 1946–1947), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Social Security Bulletin is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 471 of 744) and Q4 in Public Administration (rank 191 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Security Bulletin 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 0.8, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.141, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 31.
Social Security Bulletin is published by US Social Security Administration. Its ISSN is 0037-7910.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social Security Bulletin has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #661 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Social Security Bulletin published 1 papers in 2017; its busiest recent year was 2003 with 6. 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.
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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