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Soziale Welt is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS SSCI. Published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co KG.
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ISSN 0038-6073Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co KG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 906 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Soziale Welt is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 906 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Soziale Welt 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 Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.156, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 20.
Soziale Welt is published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co KG. Its ISSN is 0038-6073.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Soziale Welt has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #993 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Soziale Welt published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 36. 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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