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Technological Forecasting and Social Change is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 30.5), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0040-1625Verify ISSN ↗1873-5509Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 1 / 456 | 99th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 2 / 317 | 99th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 3 / 258 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 30.5.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change is Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 1 of 456), Q1 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 2 of 317) and Q1 in Applied Psychology (rank 3 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change 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 30.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.479, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 241.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,490 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0040-1625 and its online ISSN is 1873-5509.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Business systems in context.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Innovation field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change has an h-index of 291 and a 2-year mean of 16.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 30.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change published 453 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 819. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (30.1%), France (6.6%) and Italy (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 18 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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