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Journal of Marketing Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.4), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1352-7266Verify ISSN ↗1466-4445Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and International Management | 77 / 456 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Marketing | 59 / 221 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.4.
Journal of Marketing Communications is Q1 in Business and International Management (rank 77 of 456) and Q2 in Marketing (rank 59 of 221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Marketing Communications 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 9.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.099, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 70.
Journal of Marketing Communications is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1352-7266 and its online ISSN is 1466-4445.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Marketing field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Marketing Communications has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 3.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 424 Scopus journals in Business and International Management.
Journal of Marketing Communications published 72 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.2%), India (7.4%) and Vietnam (5.6%).
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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