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International Critical Thought is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2159-8282Verify ISSN ↗2159-8312Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 284 / 1434 | 80th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 364 / 745 | 51st | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 367 / 744 | 50th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 760 / 1530 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
International Critical Thought is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 284 of 1434), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 364 of 745) and Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 367 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Critical Thought 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.281, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
International Critical Thought is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2159-8282 and its online ISSN is 2159-8312.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Critical Thought has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #282 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
International Critical Thought published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 46. 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 90 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (27.8%), United States (10.6%) and Canada (9.4%).
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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