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Intercultural Communication Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), DOAJ. Published by Castledown Publishers.
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ISSN 2209-1041Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Castledown Publishers
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 213 / 1434 | 85th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 281 / 1221 | 77th | Q1 |
| Communication | 232 / 541 | 57th | Q2 |
| Education | 920 / 1698 | 45th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Intercultural Communication Education is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 213 of 1434), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 281 of 1221) and Q2 in Communication (rank 232 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Intercultural Communication Education 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 1.9, quartile Q1, 85th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.212, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Intercultural Communication Education is published by Castledown Publishers. Its ISSN is 2209-1041.
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.
Intercultural Communication Education has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #217 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Intercultural Communication Education published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 20. 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 56 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (16.1%), United States (6.8%) and Japan (6.5%).
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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