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Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by National Science Foundation.
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ISSN 0258-9710Verify ISSN ↗2478-1169Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Science Foundation
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 214 / 286 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2025 (also 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2004, 1993, 1980, 1978), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences is Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 214 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.110, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 9.
Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences is published by National Science Foundation. Its print ISSN is 0258-9710 and its online ISSN is 2478-1169.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 23. 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 78 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Sri Lanka (58.3%), India (14.1%) and Pakistan (7.1%). 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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