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Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities

Universiti Putra Malaysia · Malaysia

ISSN0128-7702eISSN2231-8534

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.265

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.639

Total Worksi

877

Total Citationsi

3,444

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.53

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the social and behavioural sciences as well as the humanities. Areas relevant to the scope of the journal include Accounting, anthropology, Archaeology and history, Architecture and habitat, and Consumer and family economics.

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General Information

Country / RegionMalaysia

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 112 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications877

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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?

Universiti Putra Malaysia

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0128-7702 / 2231-8534

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, 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

119

2019

629

2020

194

1.2k

2021

115

633

2022

289

2023

116

142

2024

133

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.

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Q2

Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)Q3

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q3

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Education and Islamic StudiesIslamic Finance and Banking StudiesEFL/ESL Teaching and LearningLinguistic, Cultural, and Literary StudiesDiverse Aspects of Tourism Research

Frequently asked questions about Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities

Is Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities: it is indexed in Web of Science, 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 Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities?

Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.53.

Is Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.