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Differences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Duke University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1040-7391Verify ISSN ↗1527-1986Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Duke University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 634 / 1434 | 55th | Q2 |
| Gender Studies | 161 / 233 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1998, 1994), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Differences is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 634 of 1434) and Q3 in Gender Studies (rank 161 of 233), by CiteScore 2025.
Differences 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.145, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 38.
Differences is published by Duke University Press. Its print ISSN is 1040-7391 and its online ISSN is 1527-1986.
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.
Differences has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #236 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Differences published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 50. 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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