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Social Marketing Quarterly

SAGE Publications Inc. · United States · Est. 1994

ISSN1539-4093

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.473

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.701

Total Worksi

980

Total Citationsi

11,536

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.62

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Business; Economics and Econometrics; Marketing.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1994

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications980

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE Publications Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1539-4093

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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?

English

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

525

2019

511

2020

378

2021

162

2022

155

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.

Economics and EconometricsQ2

MarketingQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Business

Scopus Categories

Economics and EconometricsMarketing

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Service and Product InnovationConsumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationBehavioral Health and InterventionsDigital Marketing and Social MediaEnvironmental Education and SustainabilityEnvironmental Sustainability in BusinessInnovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentCommunity Health and DevelopmentHuman auditory perception and evaluationDiverse Scientific and Economic Studies

Frequently asked questions about Social Marketing Quarterly

Is Social Marketing Quarterly a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Social Marketing Quarterly: 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 Social Marketing Quarterly?

Social Marketing Quarterly 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 1.62.

Is Social Marketing Quarterly indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Social Marketing Quarterly is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Social Marketing Quarterly?