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Social Work and Social Sciences Review is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Whiting and Birch.
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ISSN 0953-5225Verify ISSN ↗1746-6105Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Whiting and Birch
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 836 / 1530 | 45th | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 273 / 387 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present (also 2010–2015, 2007–2008, 2004–2005, 2000, 1997–1998), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Social Work and Social Sciences Review is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 836 of 1530) and Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 273 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Work and Social Sciences Review 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 1.2, quartile Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.215, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Social Work and Social Sciences Review is published by Whiting and Birch. Its print ISSN is 0953-5225 and its online ISSN is 1746-6105.
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 Work and Social Sciences Review has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,057 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Social Work and Social Sciences Review published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 32. 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (31.6%), United States (11.2%) and Nigeria (9.8%).
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.
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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