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Cultural Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.3), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0950-2386Verify ISSN ↗1466-4348Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 111 / 1434 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 69 / 536 | 87th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 126 / 692 | 81st | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 77 / 286 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1998–2001, 1987–1996), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.3.
Cultural Studies is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 111 of 1434), Q1 in Anthropology (rank 69 of 536) and Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 126 of 692), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cultural Studies 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.523, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 70.
Cultural Studies is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0950-2386 and its online ISSN is 1466-4348.
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.
Cultural Studies has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #204 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Cultural Studies published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 122. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.9%), United Kingdom (10.2%) and Hong Kong SAR China (10.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). 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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