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Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), ABDC B, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1476-6825Verify ISSN ↗1747-7654Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 20 / 1434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 33 / 231 | 85th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 130 / 876 | 85th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 52 / 169 | 69th | Q2 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 50 / 156 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 20 of 1434), Q1 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 33 of 231) and Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 130 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.658, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 46.
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1476-6825 and its online ISSN is 1747-7654.
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.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Tourism.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 1.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #168 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 60. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (13.5%), Spain (10%) and Türkiye (7.1%).
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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