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Estudios Sobre el Mensaje Periodistico is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7), DOAJ. Published by Universidad Complutense Madrid.
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ISSN 1134-1629Verify ISSN ↗1988-2696Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad Complutense Madrid
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 232 / 1434 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Communication | 246 / 541 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
Estudios Sobre el Mensaje Periodistico is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 232 of 1434) and Q2 in Communication (rank 246 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Estudios Sobre el Mensaje Periodistico 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 1.7, quartile Q1, 83rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.327, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
Estudios Sobre el Mensaje Periodistico is published by Universidad Complutense Madrid. Its print ISSN is 1134-1629 and its online ISSN is 1988-2696.
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.
Estudios Sobre el Mensaje Periodistico has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #250 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Estudios Sobre el Mensaje Periodistico published 87 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 158. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Spain (79.6%), Portugal (3.6%) and Colombia (3.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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