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Sociology Lens is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2832-5796Verify ISSN ↗2832-580XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 278 / 1936 | 85th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 877 / 1530 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Sociology Lens is Q1 in History (rank 278 of 1936) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 877 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociology Lens 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.259, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
Sociology Lens is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 2832-5796 and its online ISSN is 2832-580X.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sociology Lens has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Sociology Lens published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (15.3%), United States (13.9%) and China (7.7%).
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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