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Global Media and China is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2059-4364Verify ISSN ↗2059-4372Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 28 / 1434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Communication | 61 / 541 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Global Media and China is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 28 of 1434) and Q1 in Communication (rank 61 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Media and China is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.183, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 25.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Global Media and China is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2059-4364 and its online ISSN is 2059-4372.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Global Media and China has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 2.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Global Media and China published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 59. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (33.2%), Hong Kong SAR China (17.8%) and Australia (8%).
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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