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Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1479-1420Verify ISSN ↗1479-4233Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 186 / 1434 | 87th | Q1 |
| Communication | 223 / 541 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 186 of 1434) and Q2 in Communication (rank 223 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.562, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 35.
Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1479-1420 and its online ISSN is 1479-4233.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #240 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 49. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (83.7%), Canada (4.6%) and United Kingdom (3.1%). 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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