Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Arab Media and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by American University in Cairo.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1687-7721Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American University in Cairo
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 234 / 1186 | 80th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 666 / 1434 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Communication | 426 / 541 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
Arab Media and Society is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 234 of 1186), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 666 of 1434) and Q4 in Communication (rank 426 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Arab Media and Society is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1, 80th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.132, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Arab Media and Society is published by American University in Cairo. Its ISSN is 1687-7721.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Arab Media and Society has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Arab Media and Society published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 54. 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 20 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Arab Emirates (15%), Egypt (11.7%) and Indonesia (10%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.