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Sustainable Social Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5). Published by Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte Ltd.
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ISSN 2972-4880Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 360 / 744 | 51st | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 156 / 248 | 37th | Q3 |
| Development | 203 / 314 | 35th | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 259 / 345 | 25th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Sustainable Social Development is Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 360 of 744), Q3 in Public Administration (rank 156 of 248) and Q3 in Development (rank 203 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sustainable Social Development 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 1.5, quartile Q2, 51st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.227, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Sustainable Social Development is published by Asia Pacific Academy of Science Pte Ltd. Its ISSN is 2972-4880.
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.
Sustainable Social Development has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #345 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Sustainable Social Development published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 57. 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 89 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Thailand (11%), Malaysia (9.9%) and China (8.1%).
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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