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Cultural Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Duke University Press.
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ISSN 1743-2197Verify ISSN ↗1751-7435Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Duke University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 245 / 1434 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 706 / 1530 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Communication | 255 / 541 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
Cultural Politics is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 245 of 1434), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 706 of 1530) and Q2 in Communication (rank 255 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Cultural Politics 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 1.7, quartile Q1, 82nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.274, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Cultural Politics is published by Duke University Press. Its print ISSN is 1743-2197 and its online ISSN is 1751-7435.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cultural Politics has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #547 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Cultural Politics published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 38. 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.
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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