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Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais

Associacao Nacional de Pos-Graduacao e Pesquisa em Ciencias Sociais - ANPOCS · Brazil

ISSN0102-6909

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR✓ Open Access

Removed from DOAJ (2022-05-03). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

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

0.212

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.938

Total Worksi

1,439

Total Citationsi

17,040

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.31

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais is an interdisciplinary journal in the social sciences. It publishes academic work in the social sciences fields, including empirical and theoretical contributions on relevant issues.

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General Information

Country / RegionBrazil

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 41 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications1,439

Publisher OrgNational Association of Post-Graduate Research in Social Sciences

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

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?

Associacao Nacional de Pos-Graduacao e Pesquisa em Ciencias Sociais - ANPOCS

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0102-6909

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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

169

2019

370

2020

164

2021

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.

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Social and Economic SolidarityUrban and sociocultural dynamicsSocial and Political IssuesUrban Development and Societal IssuesPolitics and Society in Latin America

Frequently asked questions about Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais

Is Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais a predatory journal?

Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2022-05-03). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais?

Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.212.

Is Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais is indexed in Scopus.