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Consumption and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Bristol University Press.
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ISSN 2752-8499Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 75 / 744 | 89th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 175 / 1530 | 88th | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 57 / 134 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Consumption and Society is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 75 of 744), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 175 of 1530) and Q2 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 57 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Consumption 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.632, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
Consumption and Society is published by Bristol University Press. Its ISSN is 2752-8499.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Consumption and Society has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #75 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Consumption and Society published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 37. 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 Norway (13.4%), Finland (11.8%) and United Kingdom (10.3%).
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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