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Journal of Asian Pacific Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 0957-6851Verify ISSN ↗1569-9838Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 242 / 541 | 55th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 468 / 876 | 46th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 481 / 755 | 36th | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 153 / 235 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication is Q2 in Communication (rank 242 of 541), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 468 of 876) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 481 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.266, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 0957-6851 and its online ISSN is 1569-9838.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 5.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 32. 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 Japan (17.3%), China (15.7%) and Hong Kong SAR China (15.3%).
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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