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Sociologisk Forskning is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Sociologisk Forskning.
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ISSN 0038-0342Verify ISSN ↗2002-066XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sociologisk Forskning
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1271 / 1530 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Sociologisk Forskning is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1271 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociologisk Forskning 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 16th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.147, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
Sociologisk Forskning is published by Sociologisk Forskning. Its print ISSN is 0038-0342 and its online ISSN is 2002-066X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sociologisk Forskning has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,148 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Sociologisk Forskning published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 53. 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 91 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (89%), Denmark (3.3%) and Norway (2.2%). 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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