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Social Enterprise Journal

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 2005

ISSN1750-8533

SJR Q1✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.629

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.105

Total Worksi

542

Total Citationsi

14,204

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.28

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Business; Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous); Sociology and Political Science; Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous); Development; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2005

Annual Volume~ 51 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications542

Publisher OrgEmerald Publishing Limited

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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

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1750-8533

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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

541

2019

656

2020

845

2021

329

2022

436

2023

354

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, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Q1

Sociology and Political ScienceQ1

Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)Q2

DevelopmentQ2

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Business

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceEconomics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawDevelopmentBusiness, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

Frequently asked questions about Social Enterprise Journal

Is Social Enterprise Journal a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Social Enterprise Journal: 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 Enterprise Journal?

Social Enterprise Journal 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 2.28.

Is Social Enterprise Journal indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Social Enterprise Journal is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.