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Canadian Journal of Film Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Toronto.
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ISSN 0847-5911Verify ISSN ↗2561-424XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Toronto
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 228 / 697 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1998–2001), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies is Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 228 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies 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 0.5, quartile Q2, 67th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.113, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies is published by University of Toronto. Its print ISSN is 0847-5911 and its online ISSN is 2561-424X.
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.
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.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #497 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies published 6 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 31. 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 59 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from Canada (66.1%), United States (12.7%) and Türkiye (3.4%). 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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