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Sozialer Fortschritt is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Duncker und Humblot GmbH.
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ISSN 0038-609XVerify ISSN ↗1865-5386Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Duncker und Humblot GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 610 / 744 | 18th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1274 / 1530 | 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 2008–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Sozialer Fortschritt is Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 610 of 744) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1274 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Sozialer Fortschritt 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 18th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.190, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
Sozialer Fortschritt is published by Duncker und Humblot GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0038-609X and its online ISSN is 1865-5386.
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.
Sozialer Fortschritt has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #478 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Sozialer Fortschritt published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 97. 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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