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International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0959-6119Verify ISSN ↗1757-1049Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 7 / 156 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.1.
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management is Q1 in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management (rank 7 of 156), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 22.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.116, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 155.
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0959-6119 and its online ISSN is 1757-1049.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management has an h-index of 188 and a 2-year mean of 12.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 152 Scopus journals in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management published 185 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 277. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (22.6%), China (19.1%) and Hong Kong SAR China (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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