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Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Unisa Press.
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ISSN 2520-0097Verify ISSN ↗2708-9355Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Unisa Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1043 / 1530 | 31st | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 321 / 387 | 17th | Q4 |
| Development | 263 / 314 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1043 of 1530), Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 321 of 387) and Q4 in Development (rank 263 of 314), by CiteScore 2025.
Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3, 31st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.202, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development is published by Unisa Press. Its print ISSN is 2520-0097 and its online ISSN is 2708-9355.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #846 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development published 41 papers in 2025. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (84%), Nigeria (3.6%) and India (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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