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Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 1047-3203Verify ISSN ↗1095-9076Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Technology | 14 / 83 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Signal Processing | 40 / 203 | 80th | Q1 |
| Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | 40 / 183 | 78th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 233 / 1030 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation is Q1 in Media Technology (rank 14 of 83), Q1 in Signal Processing (rank 40 of 203) and Q1 in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (rank 40 of 183), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 6.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.573, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 107.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,450 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 1047-3203 and its online ISSN is 1095-9076.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 2.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 54 Scopus journals in Media Technology.
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation published 258 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 328. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (72.5%), Taiwan (3.3%) and Spain (2.2%). 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. 33 retracted papers are recorded (7.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 4 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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