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Humanities and Social Sciences Communicationsopen access

Country

United Kingdom

Universities and research institutions in United Kingdom
Media Ranking in United Kingdom

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Springer Nature

H-Index

35

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

26629992

Coverage

2020-2023

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

hsscomms@springernature.com

Scope

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications is a fully open-access, online journal publishing peer-reviewed research from across—and between—all areas of the humanities, behavioral and social sciences. We publish Articles, Reviews and Comments, as well as guest-edited thematic Article Collections (‘special issues’). The journal is supported by an international Editorial Board. Our scope is inclusive and is open to theoretical, methodological, quantitative and qualitative scholarship that makes a contribution to the literature. We particularly welcome research that speaks to emerging areas of thinking, agenda-setting issues, or grand societal challenge—irrespective of the field of study. We encourage the submission of interdisciplinary perspectives where there is a clear relevance to the advancement of the humanities, or behavioural or social sciences. This includes research arising in, or informed by, the physical, life, clinical and environmental sciences, for instance: medical humanities, digital humanities, environmental sociology, and complex network studies. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2021Q2
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2022Q1
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2023Q1
Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)2021Q2
Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)2022Q1
Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)2023Q1
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)2021Q2
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)2022Q1
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)2023Q1
Psychology (miscellaneous)2021Q3
Psychology (miscellaneous)2022Q2
Psychology (miscellaneous)2023Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2021Q2
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2022Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2023Q1
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20210.419
20220.705
20230.871
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
2020174
2021311
2022441
2023950
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20212.816
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20223.885
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20234.283
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20212.816
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20223.885
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20234.283
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20212.816
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20223.885
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20234.064
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20200
Self Cites202126
Self Cites202286
Self Cites2023259
Total Cites20200
Total Cites2021490
Total Cites20221884
Total Cites20233966
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20200
External Cites per document20212.667
External Cites per document20223.707
External Cites per document20234.003
Cites per document20200.000
Cites per document20212.816
Cites per document20223.885
Cites per document20234.283
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
202029.89
202140.51
202231.75
202330.21
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20200
Non-citable documents20219
Non-citable documents202224
Non-citable documents202339
Citable documents20200
Citable documents2021165
Citable documents2022461
Citable documents2023887
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20200
Uncited documents202168
Uncited documents2022137
Uncited documents2023200
Cited documents20200
Cited documents2021106
Cited documents2022348
Cited documents2023726
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
202041.75
202143.41
202240.76
202341.81
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton202035
Overton202172
Overton202248
Overton20236
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG202066
SDG2021137
SDG2022206
SDG2023469
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