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Journal of Consumer Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.9), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI, FT50, UT Dallas 24. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0093-5301Verify ISSN ↗1537-5277Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,224 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 1 / 536 | 99th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 4 / 692 | 99th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 31 / 755 | 95th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 33 / 456 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Marketing | 25 / 221 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1984, 1977–1978), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.9.
Journal of Consumer Research is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 1 of 536), Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 4 of 692) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 31 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Consumer Research is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 13.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 11.045, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 248.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,224 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Consumer Research is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0093-5301 and its online ISSN is 1537-5277.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Marketing field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Consumer Research has an h-index of 393 and a 2-year mean of 7.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Journal of Consumer Research published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 124. 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 80 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (53.8%), Canada (9.6%) and Hong Kong SAR China (4%). 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. 22 retracted papers are recorded (6.4 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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