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Journal of Contemporary Ethnography is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0891-2416Verify ISSN ↗1552-5414Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 143 / 1137 | 87th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 74 / 536 | 86th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 416 / 1530 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Urban Studies | 95 / 295 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present (also 1972–1982), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 143 of 1137), Q1 in Anthropology (rank 74 of 536) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 416 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.539, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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 Contemporary Ethnography is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0891-2416 and its online ISSN is 1552-5414.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography has an h-index of 101 and a 2-year mean of 2.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 44. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.5%), United Kingdom (12%) and Germany (6%).
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.
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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