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Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.7). Published by Florida Gulf Coast University.
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ISSN 2149-1291Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Florida Gulf Coast University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 143 / 1434 | 90th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 464 / 1530 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 143 of 1434) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 464 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 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 2.7, 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 0.447, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies is published by Florida Gulf Coast University. Its ISSN is 2149-1291.
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 Ethnic and Cultural Studies has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 2.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 63. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.6%), Thailand (9%) and Indonesia (9%).
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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