Technology in Society: Scopus, Scope, Metrics & Submission Guide

Journal Information at a Glance

What This Page Covers

• Aims, scope, and subject fit
• Scopus and major indexing
• Current displayed metrics
• Article and manuscript readiness
• Submission and peer-review cautions
• Open access and publication fees
• Journal-fit decision framework
• Ethical Contentxprtz support

Methodology and Source Note

This profile was prepared from the supplied journal record and authoritative journal/publisher information, prioritizing the official Technology in Society page, Elsevier’s journal insights, editorial-board information, issue archive, and the supplied Scopus source profile. Where a claim could not be verified confidently from an authoritative journal-specific source, it is marked for confirmation rather than guessed.

Metrics, fees, indexing status, editorial appointments, submission categories, and policies can change. Researchers should reconfirm time-sensitive information on the live official pages immediately before submission or before using a metric for institutional documentation.

What Is Technology in Society?

The journal positions technology within a broad societal context. Its purpose is to advance international discussion about how technological change interacts with social structures, economies, businesses, political systems, culture, ethics, philosophy, management, engineering practice, and development. This makes it more interdisciplinary than a conventional engineering journal and more technology-centered than a general social-science outlet.

For manuscript selection, this distinction matters. A paper about a machine-learning model, platform, device, digital process, or innovation is not automatically a Technology in Society paper. The manuscript should usually explain a societal or organizational mechanism: for example, how AI changes trust, work design, governance, inclusion, entrepreneurship, sustainability, innovation behavior, safety perceptions, or institutional decision-making.

The journal’s recent issues illustrate this breadth with research on digital transformation, AI, green management innovation, automated vehicles, regional innovation ecosystems, agri-biodiversity transitions, corporate innovation, and organizational strategy. The common denominator is analytical attention to technology’s relationship with people, organizations, markets, policy, and society.

Technology in Society Aims and Scope

Elsevier describes the journal as an international forum for scholarship at the intersection of technological change and social, economic, business, and philosophical transformation. The journal is interested in the social forces that shape technological choices and in the options societies have when deciding how technologies should be developed, adopted, governed, transferred, assessed, or used.

The official scope explicitly spans theoretical and scholarly approaches such as the history and philosophy of science and technology, technology forecasting, economic growth and policy, and ethics. It also includes applied perspectives involving business innovation, technology management, legal issues, and engineering, together with development-oriented work on technology transfer, technology assessment, and economic development.

What a strong scope fit often looks like

Subjects and Research Themes

Elsevier currently categorizes the journal under Sociology and Political Science, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Education, and Business and International Management. The supplied source record also places it within Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting. These classifications support a broad interdisciplinary reading of the journal, but authors should judge fit from the aims, recent papers, and active calls for papers rather than from database labels alone.

Is Technology in Society Scopus Indexed? Indexing and Current Metrics

Yes. Elsevier’s official Journal Insights page lists Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) under abstracting and indexing. The supplied source record gives Scopus Source ID 18676. Authors who need formal evidence should open the live Scopus profile and confirm that the source is active and covered for the period relevant to their institution.

The official journal page currently displays a 21.9 CiteScore and a 12.5 Impact Factor. These numbers are useful for orientation, but metrics should always be dated. A value displayed in 2026 may correspond to a specific reporting year, and the journal’s category quartile can differ by database and subject category.

SJR and SNIP are also not supplied here as current numeric values because a verifiable, current journal-specific official record was not established in the sources consulted. This is preferable to reproducing a scraped or outdated metric from a ranking website.

Article Types and Published Content

The journal visibly publishes research articles, and its archive also contains editorials and special-issue material. Elsevier separately describes Technology in Society Briefings as concise overviews of the state of the art in journal topics, combining editorial framing, relevant journal papers, future research directions, and practice recommendations.

For a new submission, authors should not assume that every content label seen in the archive is open as a standard submission category. The definitive list is the live Guide for Authors and the article-type menu in the official submission system. Special-issue submissions may also use dedicated categories and deadlines.

Who Should Consider Submitting to Technology in Society?

The journal may suit researchers in technology management, innovation studies, entrepreneurship, business and international management, sociology, political science, public policy, ethics, development studies, human factors, education, science and technology studies, engineering policy, and related interdisciplinary fields. It can also suit technical researchers when their paper makes a substantial contribution to societal or organizational understanding rather than only to technical performance.

Three practical fit tests

1. Centrality test: If the technology term disappeared from the title and abstract, would the core research question collapse? If not, technology may be peripheral.
2. Societal contribution test: Can you state in one or two sentences what the study changes about understanding society, organizations, policy, management, ethics, development, or human decision-making?
3. Recent-article test: Can you identify several recent papers in the journal that share a comparable problem, theory, method, or contribution logic without duplicating your manuscript?

Manuscript Preparation and Submission Requirements

The live Guide for Authors should be treated as the controlling source for manuscript formatting, mandatory declarations, file requirements, references, figures, tables, and submission materials. Because journal-specific instructions can change, this guide separates verified journal facts from general publication-readiness practice.

As a practical preparation step, authors should make sure the manuscript has a precise title, a structured and informative abstract appropriate to the journal’s current requirements, clear research questions, transparent methods, defensible analysis, a discussion that returns to the technology–society contribution, complete references, and publication-ethics declarations required by Elsevier. Any use of generative AI in scientific writing should follow the current Elsevier disclosure policy.

How to Submit a Paper to Technology in Society

Use the journal’s official ScienceDirect page and follow Submit your article to reach the current Elsevier submission system. Avoid third-party “submission services” that ask for journal fees or credentials outside the publisher’s official workflow.

1. Confirm scope fit against the official aims and recent articles.
2. Read the current Guide for Authors from start to finish, especially article type, file, ethics, and declaration requirements.
3. Prepare the manuscript, author details, figures/tables, disclosures, and any supplementary files required by the system.
4. Choose the correct article type or special-issue category.
5. Enter author metadata carefully so names, affiliations, ORCID details, title, abstract, and keywords match the manuscript.
6. Review the generated submission PDF before approval and keep the manuscript number and confirmation email.

As a practical step, the corresponding author should save a dated copy of the submitted files. If the submission is later revised, maintain a clear version history and a point-by-point response to reviewer and editor comments.

Peer Review, Editorial Screening, and Publication Timeline

The journal’s articles-in-press page identifies accepted content as peer reviewed. The current official journal page also publishes journal-level timing indicators: 11 days from submission to first decision, 119 days from submission to decision after review, 217 days from submission to acceptance, and 2 days from acceptance to online publication.

These figures are historical journal-level indicators, not service guarantees. A manuscript can move faster or slower depending on desk screening, fit, editor workload, reviewer availability, revision complexity, ethics checks, and author response times.

The journal does not publicly state an acceptance rate in the authoritative material used here. Do not rely on estimated acceptance rates from scraped journal-ranking pages when deciding whether to submit.

Open Access, Subscription Publishing, and Publication Fees

Technology in Society uses a hybrid model. Elsevier currently lists an open-access APC of USD 4,030 excluding taxes. It also notes that the amount may be reduced during submission when applicable. Institutional agreements, country-based arrangements, waivers, and tax treatment can change the final amount, so the submission workflow or official open-access page should be checked before budgeting.

For the subscription route, the journal page states that no publication fee is charged to authors, with published articles immediately available to subscribers. This distinction is important: “supports open access” does not mean every author must pay an APC.

Publication Ethics and Responsible Research Practice

Authors should follow Elsevier’s current ethics-in-publishing requirements and any journal-specific instructions covering authorship, originality, conflicts of interest, funding, research data, permissions, human or animal research where relevant, and use of generative AI. Ethical editing should improve clarity and presentation without fabricating data, manipulating results, disguising copied text, or misrepresenting authorship.

Before submission, verify that all authors meet authorship criteria, that contributors are acknowledged appropriately, that sources are cited accurately, that permissions have been obtained for reused material, and that the manuscript is not under incompatible simultaneous consideration elsewhere. If AI tools were used in scientific writing, follow the publisher’s current disclosure rules rather than hiding or overstating that use.

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How Contentxprtz Can Support Technology in Society Publication Readiness

Contentxprtz can assist researchers with ethical manuscript preparation, including journal publication support, manuscript assessment, academic editing, language polishing, structure and argument review, journal alignment, reference consistency, cover-letter editing, and reviewer-response editing. The objective is to help authors present their own research more clearly and professionally.

No ethical publication service can guarantee acceptance, peer-review success, Scopus indexing of an individual article, citations, or a particular editorial outcome. Final decisions remain with the journal’s editors and reviewers.