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Index on Censorship is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0306-4220Verify ISSN ↗1746-6067Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1876 / 1936 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Philosophy | 865 / 891 | 2nd | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1511 / 1530 | 1st | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 740 / 745 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1972–1993), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Index on Censorship is Q4 in History (rank 1876 of 1936), Q4 in Philosophy (rank 865 of 891) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1511 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Index on Censorship is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 3rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Index on Censorship is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0306-4220 and its online ISSN is 1746-6067.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Index on Censorship has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,074 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Index on Censorship published 149 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 160. 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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