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Revista de Ciencias Sociales

Universidad del Zulia · Venezuela · Est. 2009

ISSN1315-9518eISSN2477-9431

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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

0.314

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.126

Total Worksi

1,095

Total Citationsi

3,387

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Revista de Ciencias Sociales (RCS-Ve) es una revista de carácter académico perteneciente a la Universidad del Zulia, fundada en el año 1891. La cual es una universidad de carácter público autónomo considerada una de las más antiguas y prestigiosas del país. RCS-Ve se encuentra adscrita al Instituto de Investigaciones “Econ. Dionisio Carruyo” de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, ubicado en la Ciudad Universitaria, Núcleo Humanístico, Edificio de la División de Estudios para Graduados, Piso 1. Oficina 11. Apartado postal 4001. Maracaibo, Venezuela. ISSN: 1315-9518 (Impreso) | e-ISSN: 2477-9431 (En línea) Depósito Legal: pp 197402ZU789 | ppi 201502ZU4662 Contacto: [email protected] / [email protected] Esta obra está bajo la licencia: Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

General Information

Country / RegionVenezuela

Primary LanguageSpanish

1st Year Published2009

FrequencyTrimestral

StatusActive (last: 2020)

Total Publications1,095

Publisher OrgUniversity of Zulia

Region🌍 Global South

OA Since2008

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-SA

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

9/11 · 82%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Universidad del Zulia

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1315-9518 / 2477-9431

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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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?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

Spanish

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

2016

185

2017

331

2018

732

2019

2020

2021

2025

109

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)Q2

Public AdministrationQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Public Administration

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Business, Innovation, and EconomyOrganizational Management and InnovationDiverse Applied Research StudiesBusiness, Education, Mathematics ResearchAgricultural and Food Production StudiesEducational and Organizational DevelopmentEducation and Teacher TrainingHigher Education and SustainabilityPublic Policy and GovernanceEconomic Theory and Policy

Frequently asked questions about Revista de Ciencias Sociales

Is Revista de Ciencias Sociales a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Revista de Ciencias Sociales: it is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Revista de Ciencias Sociales?

Revista de Ciencias Sociales is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.314.

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

Revista de Ciencias Sociales is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ.