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International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 1740-8296Verify ISSN ↗2040-0918Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 651 / 1434 | 54th | Q2 |
| Communication | 422 / 541 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 2009), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 651 of 1434) and Q4 in Communication (rank 422 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.150, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1740-8296 and its online ISSN is 2040-0918.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #699 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 28. 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.4%), Spain (12.4%) and United Kingdom (8.6%).
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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