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Soundings

Society for Values in Higher Education · United States · Est. 1987

ISSN2161-6302

SJR Q4✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

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

SJR Scorei

0.106

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

577

Total Citationsi

1,456

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Humanities, Multidisciplinary; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Cultural Studies; Sociology and Political Science.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1987

Annual Volume~ 25 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2023)

Total Publications577

Publisher OrgPenn State University Press

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Society for Values in Higher Education

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2161-6302

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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

2016

126

2017

2018

2019

292

2020

2021

2022

2023

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.

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Q4

Cultural StudiesQ4

Sociology and Political ScienceQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Humanities, Multidisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceCultural StudiesArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

American Constitutional Law and PoliticsReligion and Society InteractionsPragmatism in Philosophy and EducationCritical Theory and PhilosophyJewish and Middle Eastern StudiesWar, Ethics, and JustificationRhetoric and Communication StudiesRace, History, and American SocietyReligion, Society, and DevelopmentPolitical Philosophy and Ethics

Frequently asked questions about Soundings

Is Soundings a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Soundings: 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 Soundings?

Soundings 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.

Is Soundings indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Soundings is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Soundings?