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Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsial'noi Politiki is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).
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ISSN 1727-0634Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1133 / 1530 | 25th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 200 / 248 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsial'noi Politiki is Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1133 of 1530) and Q4 in Public Administration (rank 200 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsial'noi Politiki 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 0.201, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsial'noi Politiki is published by National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University). Its ISSN is 1727-0634.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsial'noi Politiki has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #912 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsial'noi Politiki published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 56. 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 84 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Russia (95.2%), United Kingdom (1.2%) and Kyrgyzstan (1.2%). 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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