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J-Reading is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura.
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ISSN 2281-4310Verify ISSN ↗2281-5694Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 216 / 295 | 26th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 545 / 744 | 26th | Q3 |
| Demography | 111 / 140 | 21st | Q4 |
| Education | 1412 / 1698 | 16th | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 751 / 876 | 14th | Q4 |
| Computers in Earth Sciences | 67 / 76 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
J-Reading is Q3 in Urban Studies (rank 216 of 295), Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 545 of 744) and Q4 in Demography (rank 111 of 140), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
J-Reading 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 0.6, quartile Q3, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
J-Reading is published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura. Its print ISSN is 2281-4310 and its online ISSN is 2281-5694.
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.
J-Reading has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #259 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
J-Reading published 14 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 14. 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.
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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