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ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6). Published by ESSACHESS.
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ISSN 1775-352XVerify ISSN ↗2066-5083Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ESSACHESS
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 285 / 760 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 673 / 1434 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 562 / 1137 | 50th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1173 / 1530 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Communication | 428 / 541 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 285 of 760), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 673 of 1434) and Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 562 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies 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 0.6, quartile Q2, 62nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.174, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies is published by ESSACHESS. Its print ISSN is 1775-352X and its online ISSN is 2066-5083.
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.
ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #452 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 44. 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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