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Souls is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1099-9949Verify ISSN ↗1548-3843Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 371 / 1434 | 74th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 873 / 1530 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2002–2023, 1999–2000), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.1.
Souls is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 371 of 1434) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 873 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Souls 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 Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.154, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
Souls is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1099-9949 and its online ISSN is 1548-3843.
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.
Souls has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,172 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Souls published 10 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 39. 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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