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Sociologia y Tecnociencia

Universidad de Valladolid · Spain · Est. 2011

ISSN1989-8487eISSN1989-8487
SJR Q3WOS ESCIScopus / SJR
Removed from DOAJ (2025-05-02). 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 ↗
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.

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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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field
Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.
Q3
SJR · Scopus
Top 75% in field
Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ
SJR Scorei
0.191
H-Indexi
8
SNIPi
0.676
Total Worksi
168
Total Citationsi
295
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.46
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

The central aim of the journal Sociology and Technoscience is to study, understand and analyze the social influence of the various scientific and technological or technoscientific activities. Hence, the research about human health, politics, economics or ethics, among other disciplines of human knowledge (always in relation to the social research of scientific and technological knowledge) as well as the many concerns, factors, or imagined social impact generated by all activities of the techno-scientific system (biotechnology, information and communication technologies, cloning, politics, economics, drugs, technology risk, etc.) are of interest in this publication.

General Information

Country / RegionSpain
Primary LanguageEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese
1st Year Published2011
FrequencyBiannual
StatusActive (last: 2026)
Total Publications168
Publisher OrgUniversity of Valladolid
OA Since2010
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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble Blind
OA LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes
Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes
📦 Long-term Preservation
Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

9/11 · 82%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Universidad de Valladolid
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1989-8487 / 1989-8487
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus
Peer review process documented?
Double Blind
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid
Plagiarism detection in place?
Yes
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
N/A
Primary language documented?
English, Spanish, Portuguese

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
8
20
2019
6
1
2020
26
128
2021
31
68
2022
19
31
2023
13
13
2024
22
14
2025
22
0
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.

Sociology and Political ScienceQ3
DevelopmentQ4
Health (social science)Q4
Management of Technology and InnovationQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Sociology

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceManagement of Technology and InnovationDevelopmentHealth (social science)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Communication and COVID-19 ImpactEducational Innovations and TechnologyLaw, Ethics, and AI ImpactCOVID-19 Prevention and ImpactBusiness, Innovation, and EconomyHigher Education and SustainabilityE-Learning and Knowledge ManagementIslamic Finance and CommunicationPublic Health and Social InequalitiesDigital literacy in education

Frequently asked questions about Sociologia y Tecnociencia

Is Sociologia y Tecnociencia a predatory journal?

Sociologia y Tecnociencia was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2025-05-02). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Sociologia y Tecnociencia?

Sociologia y Tecnociencia 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 0.46.

Is Sociologia y Tecnociencia indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Sociologia y Tecnociencia is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Sociologia y Tecnociencia?

The central aim of the journal Sociology and Technoscience is to study, understand and analyze the social influence of the various scientific and technological or technoscientific activities. Hence, the research about human health, politics, economics or ethics, among other disciplines of human knowledge (always in relation to the social research of scientific and technological knowledge) as well as the many concerns, factors, or imagined social impact generated by all activities of the techno-scientific system (biotechnology, information and communication technologies, cloning, politics, econ

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref