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Journal of Intercultural Communication Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1747-5759Verify ISSN ↗1747-5767Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 133 / 1434 | 90th | Q1 |
| Communication | 171 / 541 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 133 of 1434) and Q2 in Communication (rank 171 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 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 2.9, 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 0.358, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1747-5759 and its online ISSN is 1747-5767.
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.
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 Intercultural Communication Research has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 1.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 48. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.9%), New Zealand (5.6%) and Iran (5.3%).
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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