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Journalism and Mass Communication Educator is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.7), formerly ABDC B. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1077-6958Verify ISSN ↗2161-4326Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 17 / 541 | 96th | Q1 |
| Education | 61 / 1698 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.7.
Journalism and Mass Communication Educator is Q1 in Communication (rank 17 of 541) and Q1 in Education (rank 61 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journalism and Mass Communication Educator 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 10.7, quartile Q1, 96th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.108, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Journalism and Mass Communication Educator is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1077-6958 and its online ISSN is 2161-4326.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It was rated B in the 2010 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journalism and Mass Communication Educator has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 2.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #93 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Journalism and Mass Communication Educator published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 68. 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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