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Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2373-6992Verify ISSN ↗2373-700XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 148 / 891 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Communication | 233 / 541 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 148 of 891) and Q2 in Communication (rank 233 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.476, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2373-6992 and its online ISSN is 2373-700X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 1.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #85 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of Media Ethics: Exploring Questions of Media Morality published 46 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 90 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (56.7%), Spain (7.8%) and United Kingdom (3.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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