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Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 2050-9790Verify ISSN ↗2050-9804Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 416 / 692 | 39th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 923 / 1434 | 35th | Q3 |
| Urban Studies | 248 / 295 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 416 of 692), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 923 of 1434) and Q4 in Urban Studies (rank 248 of 295), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 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 0.3, quartile Q3, 39th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.110, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2050-9790 and its online ISSN is 2050-9804.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #435 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 26. 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 80 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (40.6%), United Kingdom (16.3%) and Germany (7.5%).
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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