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Journal of Advertising Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0021-8499Verify ISSN ↗1740-1909Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 84 / 541 | 84th | Q1 |
| Marketing | 110 / 221 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1972), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Journal of Advertising Research is Q1 in Communication (rank 84 of 541) and Q2 in Marketing (rank 110 of 221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Advertising Research 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.219, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 107.
Journal of Advertising Research is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0021-8499 and its online ISSN is 1740-1909.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Marketing field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Advertising Research has an h-index of 148 and a 2-year mean of 4.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Journal of Advertising Research published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 58. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.7%), China (18.8%) and United Kingdom (6.4%).
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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