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Asian Communication Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies.
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ISSN 1738-2084Verify ISSN ↗2765-3390Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 537 / 1221 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Asian Communication Research is Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 537 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Communication Research 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 0.8, quartile Q2, 56th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.247, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
Asian Communication Research is published by Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies. Its print ISSN is 1738-2084 and its online ISSN is 2765-3390.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Communication Research has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #342 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Asian Communication Research published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 34. 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.
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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