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Journal of Intercultural Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.4), ABDC C. Published by ICR Publishing Group.
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ISSN 1404-1634Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ICR Publishing Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 162 / 1434 | 88th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 239 / 1221 | 80th | Q1 |
| Gender Studies | 72 / 233 | 69th | Q2 |
| Communication | 207 / 541 | 61st | Q2 |
| Education | 783 / 1698 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 118 / 248 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 310 / 506 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.4.
Journal of Intercultural Communication is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 162 of 1434), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 239 of 1221) and Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 72 of 233), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Journal of Intercultural Communication 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 2.4, quartile Q1, 88th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.299, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
Journal of Intercultural Communication is published by ICR Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 1404-1634.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Intercultural Communication has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 1.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Intercultural Communication published 64 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (8.8%), Jordan (8.2%) and Indonesia (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (10.8 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.
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