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Annals of Leisure Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1174-5398Verify ISSN ↗2159-6816Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 35 / 1434 | 97th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 163 / 876 | 81st | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 67 / 315 | 78th | Q1 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 60 / 156 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Annals of Leisure Research is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 35 of 1434), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 163 of 876) and Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 67 of 315), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Annals of Leisure Research is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.645, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 41.
Annals of Leisure Research is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1174-5398 and its online ISSN is 2159-6816.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Annals of Leisure Research has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #103 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Annals of Leisure Research published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 65. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Australia (22.1%), United Kingdom (12.3%) and New Zealand (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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