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International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Common Ground Research Networks.
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ISSN 2327-0055Verify ISSN ↗2327-2376Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 428 / 1186 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 104 / 175 | 40th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 901 / 1434 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 428 of 1186), Q3 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 104 of 175) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 901 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies 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 0.4, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.136, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 5.
International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies is published by Common Ground Research Networks. Its print ISSN is 2327-0055 and its online ISSN is 2327-2376.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #318 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies published 39 papers in 2025. 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 57 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (39.5%), United States (10.2%) and Jordan (7%).
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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