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Creativity Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), DOAJ. Published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.
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ISSN 2345-0479Verify ISSN ↗2345-0487Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 139 / 1434 | 90th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 199 / 745 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 446 / 1530 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Creativity Studies is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 139 of 1434), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 199 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 446 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Creativity Studies 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 2.9, quartile Q1, 90th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.243, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
Creativity Studies is published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Its print ISSN is 2345-0479 and its online ISSN is 2345-0487.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Creativity Studies has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 1.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #191 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Creativity Studies published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 48. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Lithuania (25.1%), Indonesia (7.9%) and Poland (7.7%).
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 1 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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