Scopus Indexed Social Science Journals in India – 2022

Here in this post, you will find an updated list of Scopus Indexed Social Science Journals in India. You can also download the below list following the PDF link

What is Scopus?

Scopus is currently the most popular and largest abstract and bibliographic database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, scientific web pages, and patient records.

Scopus was launched in 2004 and includes articles published from 1966 onwards. Apart from Scopus, other popular journal indexing databases are Google Scholar, Web of Science, NIH/NLM, PubMed, DOAJ.

How many Indian Journals are indexed in Scopus?

As of May 2022, there are 26,228 active journals in the Scopus database, and 23,233 journals publish articles in English. Of the total number of active journals, 5,239 journals are open access journals. 536 of those journals are added only in May 2022.

Out of these 23,233 journals, there are 484 Indian journals indexed in Scopus, and 45 of them belong to Social Science Filed. Below you will find the detailed list of journals in Social Science in India

List of Scopus Indexed Social Science Journals in India

Sl. No.	Journal Title	SJR	H-index	CiteScore
1	Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing	0.405 Q2	44	2.27
2	International Journal of Rural Management	0.372 Q2	11	1.23
3	Contributions to Indian Sociology	0.353 Q2	30	1.00
4	Economic and Political Weekly	0.339 Q2	61	0.37
5	Journal of Education and Health Promotion	0.331 Q3	11	1.60
6	South Asia Research	0.303 Q2	18	0.54
7	DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology	0.288 Q2	16	1.67
8	Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice	0.287 Q3	34	0.52
9	International Journal of Cyber Criminology	0.284 Q2	18	0.79
10	Journal of Mid-Life Health	0.283 Q3	13	1.15
11	Indian Journal of Gender Studies	0.280 Q1	21	0.62
12	Journal of South Asian Development	0.247 Q3	14	0.62
13	Annals of Library and Information Studies	0.231 Q3	15	1.42
14	Resonance	0.218 Q3	17	0.38
15	Journal of Engineering Education Transformations	0.214 Q3	7	0.49
16	India Quarterly	0.213 Q3	9	0.54
17	Journal of Scientometric Research	0.205 Q3	5	1.11
18	China Report	0.202 Q3	14	0.71
19	Asia Pacific Media Educator	0.196 Q3	10	0.71
20	Indian Journal of Human Development	0.196 Q3	9	0.97
21	Indian Journal of Economics and Development	0.179 Q4	3	0.30
22	Journal of Intellectual Property Rights	0.178 Q3	14	0.08
23	International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences	0.176 Q3	4	0.15
24	Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine	0.174 Q3	7	0.27
25	Contemporary Education Dialogue	0.172 Q4	6	0.32
26	Journal of Human Values	0.167 Q2	15	0.39
27	Journal of Content, Community and Communication	0.166 Q3	6	0.71
28	Social Change	0.165 Q3	13	0.51
29	International Journal of Academic Medicine	0.160 Q4	2	0.49
30	Society and Culture in South Asia	0.160 Q2	4	0.30
31	Disaster Advances	0.158 Q4	17	0.30
32	Studies on Ethno-Medicine	0.153 Q2	20	0.34
33	Sociological Bulletin	0.147 Q2	2	0.13
34	IUP Journal of English Studies	0.122 Q3	3	0.40
35	International Journal of Development and Conflict	0.118 Q4	3	0.17
36	Higher Education for the Future	0.116 Q4	4	0.82
37	Journal of Advanced Pharmacy Education and Research	0.114 Q4	8	0.33
38	Mathematics Student	0.113 Q4	1	0.10
39	Transactions of the Institute of Indian Geographers	0.111 Q4	6	0.09
40	Indian Journal of Social Work	0.108 Q4	8	0.03
41	Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics	0.106 Q4	20	0.19
42	Journal of Rural Development	0.106 Q4	8	0.04
43	Anil Aggrawal’s Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology	0.102 Q4	11	0.15
44	Punjab Geographer	0.102 Q4	1	0.10
45	Asian Journal of Social Health and Behavior		5	0.00