Journal profile
Social Interaction
ISSN 2446-3620 · University of Copenhagen · Denmark
Social Interaction: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 30 weeks (community reports); 7 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Social Interaction is published by University of Copenhagen. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies and Linguistics and Language Analysis, together about 57.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality is dedicated to studying action and sense-making practices in social interaction. It focuses typically on workplace settings and their constitutive features as made visible through participants’ conduct and the social organization of the setting. The journal welcomes scholarly papers that provide new insights through state of the art research of naturally occurring human action as situated in the material world. Papers will typically analyze how participants draw on bodily, tangible, vocal, verbal and other resources to make sense and accomplish orderly courses of social interaction. Social Interaction is an online journal that publishes four annual issues of flexible size. The journal publishes methodological and conceptual contributions, but especially encourages papers that are based on analysis of naturally occurring video recorded data. The journal welcomes analyses of longer single cases, or from collections of phenomena. It is possible to embed video extracts as integral part of the papers.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Denmark 5 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Language, Discourse, Communication StrategiesArts and Humanities41.8%
- Discourse Analysis in Language StudiesArts and Humanities11.3%
- Linguistics and Language AnalysisArts and Humanities4.2%
- EFL/ESL Teaching and LearningArts and Humanities3%
- Patient-Provider Communication in HealthcareHealth Professions3%
- Participatory Visual Research MethodsSocial Sciences3%
- Action Observation and SynchronizationPsychology2.7%
- Qualitative Research Methods and EthicsSocial Sciences2.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 18OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 41OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.7OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 154 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 8 | 177 |
| 2025 | 7 | 7 | 172 |
| 2024 | 28 | 28 | 227 |
| 2023 | 15 | 15 | 193 |
| 2022 | 15 | 15 | 171 |
| 2021 | 25 | 25 | 167 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 30 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 30 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted5, with length limits
- booklet articlesBooklet articles (with no top word limit).Length not stated
- discussion notes, comments and repliesDiscussion notes, comments and replies (up to 1.500 words)Length not stated
- full-length research articlesFull-length research articles (up to 8.000 words)Length not stated
- research articleowing types of submissions: Full-length research articles (up to 8.000 words) Full-length original articles typically discuss the statemain text ≤ 8,000 words
- short research articlesShort research articles (up to 4.000 words)Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Data availability
Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality Model summary
Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
We follow the Budapest Open Access Initiative's definition of Open Access. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions.The journal allows software/spiders to automatically crawl the journal content (also known as text mining)The journal provides article level metadata to DOAJThe journal allows readers to read, download, distribute, print, search, or link to the full…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Open access policy Model summary
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
As the Journal has adopted a double blind reviewing policy, please remove all identifying features from the paper itself by ensuring that the author’s name is replaced by ‘Authos’ in the main text, in-text citations, reference list and running header. Papers that have not had all such features removed will be returned without review to the author for alteration.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- University of Copenhagen
- Country or region
- Denmark
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2446-3620
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Social Interaction
How long does peer review take at Social Interaction?
Authors report an average review time of about 30 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Social Interaction?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 4; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Social Interaction based?
Of the 5 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Denmark (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Social Interaction?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Social Interaction is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Social Interaction open access, and what is the APC?
Social Interaction is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .