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Socio-Economic Planning Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.9), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0038-0121Verify ISSN ↗1873-6041Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 26 / 876 | 97th | Q1 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 6 / 178 | 96th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 43 / 755 | 94th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 26 / 225 | 88th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 68 / 506 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.9.
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 26 of 876), Q1 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 6 of 178) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 43 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 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 11.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.220, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 83.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0038-0121 and its online ISSN is 1873-6041.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other economics.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations Research and Management Science field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences has an h-index of 109 and a 2-year mean of 6.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences published 216 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 296. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Italy (27.3%), China (15.6%) and United States (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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