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Comunicacion y Sociedad (Mexico) is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universidad de Guadalajara.
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ISSN 0188-252XVerify ISSN ↗2448-9042Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad de Guadalajara
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 441 / 1434 | 69th | Q2 |
| Communication | 344 / 541 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 2009–2010), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Comunicacion y Sociedad (Mexico) is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 441 of 1434) and Q3 in Communication (rank 344 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Comunicacion y Sociedad (Mexico) 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.203, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
Comunicacion y Sociedad (Mexico) is published by Universidad de Guadalajara. Its print ISSN is 0188-252X and its online ISSN is 2448-9042.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Comunicacion y Sociedad (Mexico) has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #346 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Comunicacion y Sociedad (Mexico) published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 39. 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 81 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Mexico (30%), Spain (27.2%) and Argentina (8.6%).
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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