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Critical Arts is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0256-0046Verify ISSN ↗1992-6049Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 411 / 1434 | 71st | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 262 / 692 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Communication | 338 / 541 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1988, 1980–1986), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Critical Arts is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 411 of 1434), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 262 of 692) and Q3 in Communication (rank 338 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Arts is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.197, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Critical Arts is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0256-0046 and its online ISSN is 1992-6049.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Critical Arts has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #333 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Critical Arts published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 87. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (41.4%), South Africa (24.7%) and Hong Kong SAR China (4.5%).
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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