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Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 2040-4417Verify ISSN ↗2040-4425Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 82 / 697 | 88th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 238 / 692 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 82 of 697) and Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 238 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.196, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 6.
Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2040-4417 and its online ISSN is 2040-4425.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 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 91 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.4%), United Kingdom (13.7%) and Netherlands (8.8%).
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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