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Sociological Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0038-0229Verify ISSN ↗2457-0257Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 242 / 1936 | 87th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 346 / 1434 | 75th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 156 / 286 | 45th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 837 / 1530 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 1994–1996, 1986, 1974, 1963), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Sociological Bulletin is Q1 in History (rank 242 of 1936), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 346 of 1434) and Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 156 of 286), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sociological Bulletin 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 1.2, quartile Q1, 87th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.237, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Sociological Bulletin is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0038-0229 and its online ISSN is 2457-0257.
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.
Sociological Bulletin has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #276 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Sociological Bulletin published 56 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 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (86.6%), United States (4.8%) and United Kingdom (3.8%). 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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