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Games and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1555-4120Verify ISSN ↗1555-4139Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 5 / 536 | 99th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 16 / 1434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 28 / 692 | 96th | Q1 |
| Communication | 42 / 541 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 46 / 258 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 67 / 196 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Games and Culture is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 5 of 536), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 16 of 1434) and Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 28 of 692), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Games and Culture 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.946, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 70.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Games and Culture is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1555-4120 and its online ISSN is 1555-4139.
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.
Games and Culture has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 2.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Games and Culture published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 103. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (16.7%), United Kingdom (10.9%) and Poland (10.4%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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