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City, Culture and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1877-9166Verify ISSN ↗1877-9174Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,470 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 60 / 286 | 79th | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 63 / 283 | 77th | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 70 / 295 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
City, Culture and Society is Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 60 of 286), Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 63 of 283) and Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 70 of 295), by CiteScore 2025.
City, Culture 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 4.2, quartile Q1, 79th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.587, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,470 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
City, Culture and Society is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1877-9166 and its online ISSN is 1877-9174.
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.
City, Culture and Society has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 2.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
City, Culture and Society published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 41. 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 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (16.5%), Italy (12.9%) and Australia (7.2%).
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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