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Journal of Digital Media and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 2516-3523Verify ISSN ↗2516-3531Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Technology | 26 / 83 | 69th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 507 / 1530 | 66th | Q2 |
| Communication | 194 / 541 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Journal of Digital Media and Policy is Q2 in Media Technology (rank 26 of 83), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 507 of 1530) and Q2 in Communication (rank 194 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Digital Media and Policy is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.330, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
Journal of Digital Media and Policy is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2516-3523 and its online ISSN is 2516-3531.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Digital Media and Policy has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 54 Scopus journals in Media Technology.
Journal of Digital Media and Policy published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 47. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Australia (14.3%), United Kingdom (11.1%) and Belgium (6.3%).
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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