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Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Michigan Publishing.
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ISSN 2578-4900Verify ISSN ↗2578-4919Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Michigan Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 153 / 697 | 78th | Q1 |
| Communication | 387 / 541 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 153 of 697) and Q3 in Communication (rank 387 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cinema and Media 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.174, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is published by Michigan Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2578-4900 and its online ISSN is 2578-4919.
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 Cinema and Media Studies has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #185 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies published 103 papers in 2025. 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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