A detailed study of the structural, magnetic, magnetocaloric and electrical effect properties in polycrystalline manganite La 0.5 Sm 0.1 Sr 0.4 Mn 0.975 In 0.025 O 3 is presented. The X-ray diffraction pattern is consistent with a rhombohedral structure with R 3c space group. Experimental results revealed that our compound prepared via a sol-gel method exhibits a continuous (second-order) ferromagnetic (FM) to paramagnetic (PM) phase transition around the Curie temperature (T C ¼ 300 K). In addition, the magnetic entropy change was found to reach 5.25 J kg À1 K À1 under an applied magnetic field of 5 T, corresponding to a relative cooling power (RCP) of 236 J kg À1 . We have fitted the experimental data of resistivity using a typical numerical method (Gauss function). The simulation values such as maximum resistivity (r max ) and metal-semiconductor transition temperature (T M-Sc ), calculated from this function, showed a perfect agreement with the experimental data. The shifts of these parameters as a function of magnetic field for our sample have been interpreted. The obtained values of b and g, determined by analyzing the Arrott plots, are found to be T C ¼ 298.66 AE 0.64 K, b ¼ 0.325 AE 0.001 and g ¼ 1.25 AE 0.01. The critical isotherm M (T C , m 0 H) gives d ¼ 4.81 AE 0.01. These critical exponent values are found to be consistent and comparable to those predicted by the three-dimensional Ising model with short-range interaction. Thus, the Widom scaling law d ¼ 1 þ g b is fulfilled.