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Culture Unbound is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), DOAJ. Published by Linkoping University Electronic Press.
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ISSN 2000-1525Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Linkoping University Electronic Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 520 / 1434 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 300 / 692 | 56th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 284 / 536 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Culture Unbound is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 520 of 1434), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 300 of 692) and Q3 in Anthropology (rank 284 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Culture Unbound 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 0.8, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.123, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Culture Unbound is published by Linkoping University Electronic Press. Its ISSN is 2000-1525.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Culture Unbound has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #476 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Culture Unbound published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 37. 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 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (38.2%), United Kingdom (7.1%) and United States (6.6%).
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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