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Sojourn is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute.
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ISSN 0217-9520Verify ISSN ↗1793-2858Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 235 / 536 | 56th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 909 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1999–2001, 1995–1996, 1988–1993), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.1.
Sojourn is Q2 in Anthropology (rank 235 of 536) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 909 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Sojourn 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.179, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 26.
Sojourn is published by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute. Its print ISSN is 0217-9520 and its online ISSN is 1793-2858.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sojourn has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #322 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Sojourn published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 65. 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.
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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