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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1873-9857Verify ISSN ↗1873-9865Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 343 / 1434 | 76th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 230 / 692 | 66th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 833 / 1530 | 45th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 406 / 745 | 45th | Q3 |
| Communication | 301 / 541 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 343 of 1434), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 230 of 692) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 833 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.157, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1873-9857 and its online ISSN is 1873-9865.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #391 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 38. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.2%), United Kingdom (16.8%) and Germany (14%).
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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