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Social Change

Council for Social Development · India

ISSN0049-0857

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.217

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.596

Total Worksi

2,670

Total Citationsi

8,753

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.39

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Geography, Planning and Development; Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Sociology and Political Science; Development.

General Information

Country / RegionIndia

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 67 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications2,670

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Council for Social Development

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0049-0857

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

366

2019

299

2020

110

2021

145

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Geography, Planning and DevelopmentQ3

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q3

Sociology and Political ScienceQ3

DevelopmentQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)DevelopmentGeography, Planning and Development

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

South Asian Studies and ConflictsSocial and Economic Development in IndiaPoverty, Education, and Child WelfareIncome, Poverty, and InequalityIndian Economic and Social Development

Frequently asked questions about Social Change

Is Social Change a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Social Change: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Social Change?

Social Change is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.217.

Is Social Change indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Social Change is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Social Change?