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Societies and Political Orders in Transition is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.7). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2511-2201Verify ISSN ↗2511-221XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 52 / 1530 | 96th | Q1 |
| Development | 22 / 314 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 20 / 283 | 93rd | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2017–2023), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.7.
Societies and Political Orders in Transition is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 52 of 1530), Q1 in Development (rank 22 of 314) and Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 20 of 283), by CiteScore 2025.
Societies and Political Orders in Transition 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 8.7, quartile Q1, 96th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 21.
Societies and Political Orders in Transition is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2511-2201 and its online ISSN is 2511-221X.
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.
Societies and Political Orders in Transition has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,164 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Societies and Political Orders in Transition published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 76. 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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