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Communication and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universidad de Navarra.
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ISSN 0214-0039Verify ISSN ↗2386-7876Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad de Navarra
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 88 / 1434 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Communication | 118 / 541 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
Communication and Society is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 88 of 1434) and Q1 in Communication (rank 118 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Communication and Society 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.530, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$301 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.
Communication and Society is published by Universidad de Navarra. Its print ISSN is 0214-0039 and its online ISSN is 2386-7876.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Communication and Society has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 2.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Communication and Society published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 172. 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 74 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Spain (56.1%), United States (3%) and Brazil (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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