WoS SCIE Q3Scopus Q2SCImago #12,135CAS 4区Hybrid

Social Choice and Welfare

Country: Germany•WoS SCIE Quartile: Q3•Scopus SJR: 0.489•SCImago Rank: #12,135•Identifier (ISSN):0176-1714(Print)/1432-217X(Online)•Articles / Year: 76•Estimated Publication Fee (APC): $2,989 USD

Clarivate JCR Index Advisory: Active (SSCI)

Clarivate IF (2026)Q3

1.3

↑ +0.5

Leading citation impact metric from Clarivate Journal Citation Reports

JCR Release Date: 2026-06-17

H-Index (Hirsch Index)

64 papers with at least that number of citations each

WoS: SCIE / JCRQ3

Self-Citation Rate20%

Safe Level (< 15%)Warning Level (> 20%)

Self-citation below 15% indicates strong scholarly independence.

Volume & Open AccessHybrid

76articles/year

50.77% Gold OA•100% Original Research

State Council for Professorship (HĐGSNN) Scoring

Quyết định số 26/QĐ-HĐGSNN ngày 11/7/2025 (Mục quốc tế)

1.50pts

Latest Max Score

Estimated (Dec 26)

Scoring Basis: WoS Q3(IF: 1.3)

HĐGSNN Score History

By article publication year

Year	Max Score	Evaluation Details	Source
2026	1.50đ	WoS Q3(IF: 1.3)	🔵 Computed
2025	1.50đ	WoS Q3(IF: 0.8)	🔵 Computed
2024	1.50đ	WoS Q3(IF: 0.5)	🔵 Computed
2023	1.50đ	WoS Q3(IF: 0.9)	🔵 Computed
2022	1.50đ	WoS Q3(IF: 0.874)	🔵 Computed

Note: Domestic journal scores are officially collected from annual HĐGSNN decisions across councils. International journal scores are dynamically computed according to Decision 26/QĐ-HĐGSNN based on quartile and citation metrics in the publication year.

Aims & Scope

Social Choice and Welfare explores all aspects, both normative and positive, of welfare economics, collective choice, and strategic interaction. Topics include but are not limited to: preference aggregation, welfare criteria, fairness, justice and equity, rights, inequality and poverty measurement, voting and elections, political games, coalition formation, public goods, mechanism design, networks, matching, optimal taxation, cost-benefit analysis, computational social choice, judgement aggregation, market design, behavioral welfare economics, subjective well-being studies and experimental investigations related to social choice and voting. As such, the journal is inter-disciplinary and cuts across the boundaries of economics, political science, philosophy, and mathematics. Articles on choice and order theory that include results that can be applied to the above topics are also included in the journal. While it emphasizes theory, the journal also publishes empirical work in the subject area reflecting cross-fertilizing between theoretical and empirical research. Readers will find original research articles, surveys, and book reviews.Officially cited as: Soc Choice Welf

Topics Covered (Recognized by AI)

Economics98.2%Political science88.1%Law88%Mathematics79.3%Mathematical economics66.1%Macroeconomics64.8%Public finance61.5%Computer science59.6%Politics59.4%Microeconomics59.3%Philosophy43%Market economy41%International political economy38.2%Statistics34.2%Epistemology32.3%Programming language29%Social policy27.7%Artificial intelligence25.2%Welfare economics24.4%Physics24.2%Sociology23.8%Mathematical analysis23.6%Social choice theory23.5%Geometry22.6%Biology21.1%

Primary Research Areas

Multiple

Official Website NLM PubMed Catalog Submission Portal SCImago Profile

SCImago & Scopus Journal Intelligence

Global SCImago ranking, SJR prestige index, Scopus coverage, and societal policy impact

Rank #12,135Scopus Q2SCImago Profile

Scopus Coverage:1984-2026

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Scopus Broad Areas:Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSocial Sciences

Scopus Citation Rank (SJR)Q2

0.489

Weighted prestige citation metric per document indexed in the Scopus database.

Tứ phân vị: Scopus Q2

Scopus H-Index (2025)

Measures cumulative publication volume and citation impact.

Scopus Database Indexed (2025)

Citations / Doc (2 years)

1.41

Average citations received per document published in the 2-year window.

2-Year Citation Window

Estimated Publication Fee (APC)

$2,989 USD

Estimated Article Processing Charge for Open Access publication.

Chi phí ước tính / bài báo

Scopus 3-Year Publication & Citation Window

3-Year Citations239

3-Year Documents189

Citable Documents187

Aggregated from Scopus database across the 3-year SJR evaluation window.

Societal Impact & Inclusivity (SCImago)

Policy Citations (Overton)2

Citations in government and international policy documents

Female Author Rate16.7%

Percentage of female authors published in the journal

Real-world societal policy reach and author gender diversity tracked by SCImago.

Scopus Subject Categories

Economics and EconometricsQ2

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q2

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Classification

Major / minor zone classification and CAS Early Warning List history

Major Category (Broad Field):

4区 (Zone 4)Economics

Minor Category (Specific Field):

4区ECONOMICS

CAS Early Warning List History:

Updated annually: 2020 – 2024

2020

Not warned

2021

Not warned

2022

Not warned

2023

Not warned

2024

Not warned

Publishing & Editorial Information

Detailed publisher, peer-review turnaround, and publication cycle specifications

Publisher Review Speed

Updating

Average time to first editorial decision

Online Publication Speed

Updating

Time from acceptance to online publication

Official Acceptance Rate

Updating

Manuscript acceptance rate confirmed by the publisher

Open Access Model

Hybrid

OA publishing option or traditional subscription

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Language

English

Frequency

8 issues per year

Indexing & Databases

SSCIScopusPubMed

WoS Categories & Quartiles

Detailed JCR / JCI category rankings and quartile breakdown from Clarivate

Clarivate JCR & JCI

Category	Index	Rank	Quartile
ECONOMICS	JCRSSCI	351/626	Q3
SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS	JCRSSCI	44/70	Q3
ECONOMICS	JCISSCI	399/627	Q3
SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS	JCISSCI	54/70	Q4