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Film Criticism is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS AHCI. Published by Allegheny College.
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ISSN 0163-5069Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Allegheny College
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 629 / 697 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–2024 (also 2002–2020), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Film Criticism is Q4 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 629 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
Film Criticism is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 9th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 17.
Film Criticism is published by Allegheny College. Its ISSN is 0163-5069.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Film Criticism has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #225 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Film Criticism published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 52. 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 62 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (68.5%), Australia (8.9%) and South Korea (6.5%). 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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