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Communication, Culture and Critique is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 1753-9129Verify ISSN ↗1753-9137Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,235 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 124 / 1434 | 91st | Q1 |
| Communication | 161 / 541 | 70th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 536 / 1022 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.
Communication, Culture and Critique is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 124 of 1434), Q2 in Communication (rank 161 of 541) and Q3 in Computer Science Applications (rank 536 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Communication, Culture and Critique is indexed in the 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 3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.696, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,235 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, Culture and Critique is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1753-9129 and its online ISSN is 1753-9137.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communication, Culture and Critique has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Communication, Culture and Critique published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 66. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (59.1%), Canada (8.7%) and United Kingdom (8.1%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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