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Journal of Communication, Language and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Multimedia University Press (MMU Press).
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ISSN 2805-444XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multimedia University Press (MMU Press)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 115 / 1186 | 90th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 449 / 1434 | 68th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 488 / 1221 | 59th | Q2 |
| Communication | 347 / 541 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Communication, Language and Culture is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 115 of 1186), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 449 of 1434) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 488 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Communication, Language and Culture is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1, 90th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.198, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 4.
Journal of Communication, Language and Culture is published by Multimedia University Press (MMU Press). Its ISSN is 2805-444X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Communication, Language and Culture has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #103 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Communication, Language and Culture published 31 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.
In its latest 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (59.4%), Indonesia (6.7%) and Pakistan (5.1%). 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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