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Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Stellenbosch.
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ISSN 0037-8054Verify ISSN ↗2312-7198Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Stellenbosch
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 887 / 1530 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1977, 1973–1974), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 887 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.302, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$185 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk is published by University of Stellenbosch. Its print ISSN is 0037-8054 and its online ISSN is 2312-7198.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #368 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 48. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (86.7%), Zimbabwe (3.1%) and Australia (2.7%). 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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