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Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2634-5978Verify ISSN ↗2634-5986Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 459 / 1434 | 67th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 280 / 692 | 59th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 504 / 1221 | 58th | Q2 |
| Communication | 356 / 541 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–2025 (also 2014–2022), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 459 of 1434), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 280 of 692) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 504 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research 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 0.9, quartile Q2, 67th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2634-5978 and its online ISSN is 2634-5986.
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.
Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 1.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #131 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 73. 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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