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Zeitschrift fur Soziologie is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SSCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0340-1804Verify ISSN ↗2366-0325Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 775 / 1530 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1989–1991, 1986–1987, 1983–1984, 1981, 1972), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Zeitschrift fur Soziologie is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 775 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Zeitschrift fur Soziologie 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.218, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 40.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Zeitschrift fur Soziologie is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0340-1804 and its online ISSN is 2366-0325.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zeitschrift fur Soziologie has an h-index of 79 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #581 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Zeitschrift fur Soziologie published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 38. 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 79 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (89%), Switzerland (5.5%) and Austria (3.8%). 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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