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Socio-Economic Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1475-1461Verify ISSN ↗1475-147XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,718 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 29 / 289 | 90th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 162 / 1530 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Socio-Economic Review is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 29 of 289) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 162 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Socio-Economic Review is indexed in the 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.372, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 86.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,718 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 Review is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1475-1461 and its online ISSN is 1475-147X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Social Sciences field (up from 3 in 2021).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Socio-Economic Review has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Socio-Economic Review published 94 papers in 2025. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (33%), United Kingdom (13.8%) and Germany (11.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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