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IC Revista Cientifica de Informacion y Comunicacion is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Departamento de Periodismo I de la Universidad de Sevilla..
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ISSN 1696-2508Verify ISSN ↗2173-1071Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Departamento de Periodismo I de la Universidad de Sevilla.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 636 / 1434 | 55th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 642 / 1221 | 47th | Q3 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 215 / 296 | 27th | Q3 |
| Communication | 414 / 541 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
IC Revista Cientifica de Informacion y Comunicacion is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 636 of 1434), Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 642 of 1221) and Q3 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 215 of 296), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
IC Revista Cientifica de Informacion y Comunicacion 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.173, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 5.
IC Revista Cientifica de Informacion y Comunicacion is published by Departamento de Periodismo I de la Universidad de Sevilla. Its print ISSN is 1696-2508 and its online ISSN is 2173-1071.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
IC Revista Cientifica de Informacion y Comunicacion has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,172 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
IC Revista Cientifica de Informacion y Comunicacion published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 35. 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 51 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Spain (67.6%), Chile (7.5%) and Mexico (5.6%). 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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