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Journal of Canadian Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Toronto Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0021-9495Verify ISSN ↗1911-0251Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 506 / 1936 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 545 / 1434 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1986, 1981–1984, 1979, 1968), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Canadian Studies is Q2 in History (rank 506 of 1936) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 545 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Canadian Studies 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.157, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
Journal of Canadian Studies is published by University of Toronto Press. Its print ISSN is 0021-9495 and its online ISSN is 1911-0251.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Canadian Studies has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #503 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Canadian Studies published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 49. 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Canada (92.6%), United States (3.2%) and United Kingdom (2.1%). 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. 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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