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Southern Space Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2523-3718Verify ISSN ↗2523-3726Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1345 / 1530 | 12th | Q4 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 162 / 169 | 4th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 728 / 755 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 103 / 105 | 2nd | 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 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Southern Space Studies is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1345 of 1530), Q4 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 162 of 169) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 728 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Southern Space Studies 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 12th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Southern Space Studies is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2523-3718 and its online ISSN is 2523-3726.
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 Space Studies has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,069 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Southern Space Studies published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 98. 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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