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International Journal of Play 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 2159-4937Verify ISSN ↗2159-4953Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 261 / 1434 | 81st | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 168 / 536 | 68th | Q2 |
| Education | 1018 / 1698 | 40th | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 275 / 380 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
International Journal of Play is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 261 of 1434), Q2 in Anthropology (rank 168 of 536) and Q3 in Education (rank 1018 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Play 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 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.272, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
International Journal of Play is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2159-4937 and its online ISSN is 2159-4953.
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 Journal of Play has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 1.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #200 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
International Journal of Play published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 79. 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 83 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.1%), United Kingdom (18.1%) and Canada (9.6%).
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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