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Journal of Social Studies Education Research

Association for Social Studies Educa · Turkey · Est. 2010

ISSN1309-9108

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2024-05-01). 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 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.406

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.794

Total Worksi

Total Citationsi

352

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

is an international, scholarly open access, peer-reviewed and fully refereed journal focusing on theories, methods and applications in Social Studies Education. As an online-only journal it is devoted to the publication of original, primary research (theoretical and empirical papers) as well as practical applications relating to Social Studies Education.

General Information

Country / RegionTurkey

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2010

Annual Volume~ 1 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2021)

Total Publications53

Publisher OrgJournal of Social Studies Education Research

Region🌍 Global South

OA Since2013

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Submission Info

Peer Reviewpeer-reviewed

OA LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Association for Social Studies Educa

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1309-9108

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

peer-reviewed

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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

132

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2025

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.

EducationQ2

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Education

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Social Studies Education Research

Is Journal of Social Studies Education Research a predatory journal?

Journal of Social Studies Education Research was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2024-05-01). 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 Journal of Social Studies Education Research?

Journal of Social Studies Education Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.406.

Is Journal of Social Studies Education Research indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Social Studies Education Research is indexed in Scopus.