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Museum and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), DOAJ. Published by University of Leicester.
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ISSN 1479-8360Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Leicester
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museology | 19 / 96 | 80th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 434 / 744 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Museum and Society is Q1 in Museology (rank 19 of 96) and Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 434 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Museum and Society 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 1.1, quartile Q1, 80th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.222, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Museum and Society is published by University of Leicester. Its ISSN is 1479-8360.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Museum and Society has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 86 Scopus journals in Museology.
Museum and Society published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 57. 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 86 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (31.8%), United States (13.4%) and Canada (8.7%).
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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