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Media History is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1368-8804Verify ISSN ↗1469-9729Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 321 / 1936 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 395 / 1434 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Communication | 328 / 541 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present (also 2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Media History is Q1 in History (rank 321 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 395 of 1434) and Q3 in Communication (rank 328 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Media History 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.124, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 19.
Media History is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1368-8804 and its online ISSN is 1469-9729.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Media History has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Media History published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 52. 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 17 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (26.5%), Netherlands (17.6%) and France (14.7%).
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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