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Sociological Methods and Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.2), formerly ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0049-1241Verify ISSN ↗1552-8294Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 5 / 1530 | 99th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 4 / 744 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.2.
Sociological Methods and Research is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 5 of 1530) and Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 4 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociological Methods and Research 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 16.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.471, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 106.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,900 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 Methods and Research is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0049-1241 and its online ISSN is 1552-8294.
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 was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sociological Methods and Research has an h-index of 161 and a 2-year mean of 4.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Sociological Methods and Research published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 67. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (49.2%), Germany (12.7%) and United Kingdom (5.1%).
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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