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Journal of Urban Culture Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts.
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ISSN 2228-8279Verify ISSN ↗2408-1213Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 97 / 697 | 86th | Q1 |
| History | 326 / 1936 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Music | 43 / 196 | 78th | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 177 / 295 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2011), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Urban Culture Research is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 97 of 697), Q1 in History (rank 326 of 1936) and Q1 in Music (rank 43 of 196), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Urban Culture Research 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 1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.266, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
Journal of Urban Culture Research is published by Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts. Its print ISSN is 2228-8279 and its online ISSN is 2408-1213.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Urban Culture Research has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #497 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Journal of Urban Culture Research published 18 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 24. 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.
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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