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Creative Industries Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1751-0694Verify ISSN ↗1751-0708Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 23 / 697 | 96th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 98 / 1434 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Communication | 130 / 541 | 76th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 153 / 317 | 51st | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 252 / 506 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Creative Industries Journal is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 23 of 697), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 98 of 1434) and Q1 in Communication (rank 130 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Creative Industries Journal 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.474, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 20.
Creative Industries Journal is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1751-0694 and its online ISSN is 1751-0708.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Creative Industries Journal has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 1.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Creative Industries Journal published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 38. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (24%), Australia (10.9%) and Spain (7.9%).
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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