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Sociologica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Bologna.
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ISSN 1971-8853Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Bologna
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 565 / 1530 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Sociologica is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 565 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociologica is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.381, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Sociologica is published by University of Bologna. Its ISSN is 1971-8853.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sociologica has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,157 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Sociologica published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 1993 with 27. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from Italy (26.9%), United States (17.2%) and France (13.3%).
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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