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Critical Gambling Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), DOAJ. Published by University of Alberta Library.
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ISSN 2563-190XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Alberta Library
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 176 / 692 | 74th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 288 / 744 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Critical Gambling Studies is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 176 of 692) and Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 288 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Gambling 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, quartile Q2, 74th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.327, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Critical Gambling Studies is published by University of Alberta Library. Its ISSN is 2563-190X.
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.
Critical Gambling Studies has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #170 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Critical Gambling Studies published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 34. 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 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Canada (38.2%), United Kingdom (18.1%) and United States (9.5%).
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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