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Contention is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.4). Published by Berghahn Journals.
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ISSN 2330-1392Verify ISSN ↗2572-7184Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 161 / 1434 | 88th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 529 / 1530 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.4.
Contention is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 161 of 1434) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 529 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Contention is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q1, 88th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.295, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
Contention is published by Berghahn Journals. Its print ISSN is 2330-1392 and its online ISSN is 2572-7184.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contention has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #734 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Contention published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 19. 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 21 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (31%), Netherlands (19%) and United States (18.3%).
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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