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Journal of Marine and Island Cultures is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), DOAJ. Published by Plate Media.
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ISSN 2212-6821Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Plate Media
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 310 / 1434 | 78th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 191 / 536 | 64th | Q2 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 153 / 231 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 330 / 432 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present (also 2012–2019), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of Marine and Island Cultures is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 310 of 1434), Q2 in Anthropology (rank 191 of 536) and Q3 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 153 of 231), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Marine and Island Cultures 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 1.3, quartile Q1, 78th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.236, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
Journal of Marine and Island Cultures is published by Plate Media. Its ISSN is 2212-6821.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Marine and Island Cultures has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #526 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Marine and Island Cultures published 56 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 66 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (42.9%), South Korea (20.5%) and Philippines (6.8%).
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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