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Journal of Public Interest Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), DOAJ. Published by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.
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ISSN 2573-4342Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 411 / 1434 | 71st | Q2 |
| Gender Studies | 128 / 233 | 44th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 929 / 1530 | 39th | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 286 / 387 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Public Interest Communications is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 411 of 1434), Q3 in Gender Studies (rank 128 of 233) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 929 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Public Interest Communications 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, quartile Q2, 71st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Journal of Public Interest Communications is published by University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. Its ISSN is 2573-4342.
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 Public Interest Communications has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #852 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Public Interest Communications published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 18. 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 36 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (92.6%), Australia (2.8%) and Switzerland (1.4%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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