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Cultural Dynamics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0921-3740Verify ISSN ↗1461-7048Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 665 / 1434 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 337 / 692 | 51st | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 338 / 536 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1988–1993), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Cultural Dynamics is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 665 of 1434), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 337 of 692) and Q3 in Anthropology (rank 338 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Cultural Dynamics 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.153, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Cultural Dynamics is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0921-3740 and its online ISSN is 1461-7048.
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.
Cultural Dynamics has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #349 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Cultural Dynamics published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 35. 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 93 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (37.1%), Germany (14.3%) and Spain (9.7%).
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 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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