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IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), DOAJ. Published by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR).
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ISSN 2187-4905Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 103 / 175 | 41st | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 896 / 1434 | 37th | Q3 |
| Anthropology | 404 / 536 | 24th | Q4 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 626 / 744 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies is Q3 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 103 of 175), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 896 of 1434) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 404 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies 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 0.4, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.120, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 3.
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies is published by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR). Its ISSN is 2187-4905.
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.
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 19. 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 34 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (14.7%), Singapore (14.7%) and Japan (13.2%).
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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