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Area Abierta is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universidad Complutense Madrid.
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ISSN 1578-8393Verify ISSN ↗2530-7592Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad Complutense Madrid
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 407 / 541 | 24th | Q4 |
| Marketing | 202 / 221 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Area Abierta is Q4 in Communication (rank 407 of 541) and Q4 in Marketing (rank 202 of 221), by CiteScore 2025.
Area Abierta 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.145, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Area Abierta is published by Universidad Complutense Madrid. Its print ISSN is 1578-8393 and its online ISSN is 2530-7592.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Area Abierta has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #396 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Area Abierta published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 37. 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 94 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (81.4%), Mexico (4.3%) and Argentina (2.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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