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Journal of British Cinema and Television is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1743-4521Verify ISSN ↗1755-1714Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 247 / 697 | 64th | Q2 |
| Communication | 445 / 541 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of British Cinema and Television is Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 247 of 697) and Q4 in Communication (rank 445 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of British Cinema and Television is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.118, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Journal of British Cinema and Television is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 1743-4521 and its online ISSN is 1755-1714.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of British Cinema and Television has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #349 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Journal of British Cinema and Television published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 61. 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 60 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (85%), China (1.7%) and France (1.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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