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East Asian Popular Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2634-5935Verify ISSN ↗2634-5943Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 502 / 1186 | 57th | Q2 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 337 / 697 | 51st | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 433 / 692 | 37th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 963 / 1434 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
East Asian Popular Culture is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 502 of 1186), Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 337 of 697) and Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 433 of 692), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
East Asian Popular Culture 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 0.3, quartile Q2, 57th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
East Asian Popular Culture is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2634-5935 and its online ISSN is 2634-5943.
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.
East Asian Popular Culture has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
East Asian Popular Culture published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 36. 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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