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Mind, Culture, and Activity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SSCI. 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 1074-9039Verify ISSN ↗1532-7884Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 86 / 1434 | 94th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 46 / 536 | 91st | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 101 / 1137 | 91st | Q1 |
| Education | 479 / 1698 | 71st | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 147 / 380 | 61st | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 125 / 315 | 60th | Q2 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 59 / 129 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 1994–2024), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.8.
Mind, Culture, and Activity is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 86 of 1434), Q1 in Anthropology (rank 46 of 536) and Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 101 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Mind, Culture, and Activity is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.375, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
Mind, Culture, and Activity is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1074-9039 and its online ISSN is 1532-7884.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Mind, Culture, and Activity has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #299 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Mind, Culture, and Activity published 27 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 47. 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 89 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.7%), Brazil (6%) and Spain (5.6%).
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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