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Society and Animals is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1063-1119Verify ISSN ↗1568-5306Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 182 / 891 | 79th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 726 / 1530 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Veterinary (all) | 108 / 204 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Society and Animals is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 182 of 891), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 726 of 1530) and Q3 in Veterinary (all) (rank 108 of 204), by CiteScore 2025.
Society and Animals is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.236, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
Society and Animals is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1063-1119 and its online ISSN is 1568-5306.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Society and Animals has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #247 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Society and Animals published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 75. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (24.3%), United Kingdom (14.1%) and Australia (7.3%).
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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