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Surveillance and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Surveillance Studies Network.
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ISSN 1477-7487Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Surveillance Studies Network
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 88 / 295 | 70th | Q2 |
| Safety Research | 42 / 108 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Surveillance and Society is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 88 of 295) and Q2 in Safety Research (rank 42 of 108), by CiteScore 2025.
Surveillance and Society 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.569, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 61.
Surveillance and Society is published by Surveillance Studies Network. Its ISSN is 1477-7487.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Surveillance and Society has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 1.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Surveillance and Society published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 85. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (37%), Canada (16.7%) and United Kingdom (10.9%).
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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