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Social Work and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), DOAJ. Published by University of Duisburg.
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ISSN 1613-8953Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Duisburg
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 594 / 744 | 20th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1254 / 1530 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Social Work and Society is Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 594 of 744) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1254 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Work and Society 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 20th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.162, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
Social Work and Society is published by University of Duisburg. Its ISSN is 1613-8953.
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 Work and Society has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #661 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Social Work and Society published 2 papers in 2012; its busiest recent year was 2007 with 2. 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 42 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Germany (32.1%), Denmark (17.9%) and Spain (7.1%).
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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