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Cultural Trends is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), ABDC B, WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0954-8963Verify ISSN ↗1469-3690Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 15 / 697 | 97th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 48 / 1434 | 96th | Q1 |
| Communication | 85 / 541 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present (also 2004–2008, 1998, 1989–1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Cultural Trends is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 15 of 697), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 48 of 1434) and Q1 in Communication (rank 85 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Cultural Trends 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.668, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
Cultural Trends is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0954-8963 and its online ISSN is 1469-3690.
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.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cultural Trends has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 1.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Cultural Trends published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 73. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (15.4%), Netherlands (5.7%) and Portugal (5.4%).
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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