Indexing

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications* is currently indexed or abstracted by the following services:

  • ANVUR
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) (Clarivate)
  • Baidu
  • BFI List
  • CLOCKSS
  • CNKI
  • CNPIEC
  • Current Contents/Arts and Humanities
  • Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Dimensions
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • EBSCO
  • eLibrary.ru
  • GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  • Google Scholar
  • Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  • Naver
  • Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  • OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  • Portico
  • ProQuest
  • PubMed Central (PMC) (where the research in question is funded by the NIH or other NIH-accepted institutions such as the Wellcome Trust)
  • Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
  • SCImago
  • SCOPUS
  • Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) (Clarivate)
  • TD Net Discovery Service
  • Wanfang

*From January 2015 to June 2020, this journal operated under the title Palgrave Communications.

Impact Factor, article and journal metrics

Key metrics (2025 JCR Release):

  • 2-Year Impact Factor: 3.6
  • 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.9
  • Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 4.01
  • JCI Rank in Category: First place (1/408) in Humanities, Interdisciplinary; and Second place (2/271) in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Article metrics such as number of downloads, citations and online attention are available from each article page, and provide an overview of the attention received by a paper.

Articles published in the journal were downloaded 4,862,226 times in 2023. The time from submission to first editorial decision is an average of 16 days.