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Society and Culture in South Asia is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.
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ISSN 2393-8617Verify ISSN ↗2394-9872Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 476 / 1434 | 66th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 271 / 536 | 49th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 472 / 744 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Society and Culture in South Asia is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 476 of 1434), Q3 in Anthropology (rank 271 of 536) and Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 472 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Society and Culture in South Asia 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 0.8, quartile Q2, 66th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.135, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Society and Culture in South Asia is published by Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2393-8617 and its online ISSN is 2394-9872.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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.
Society and Culture in South Asia has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #824 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Society and Culture in South Asia published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 39. 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 90 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (73.9%), Sri Lanka (3.3%) and United States (3.3%). 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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