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Nature and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SSCI. Published by Berghahn Journals.
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ISSN 1558-5468Verify ISSN ↗1558-6073Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 151 / 286 | 47th | 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 Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Nature and Culture is Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 151 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Nature and Culture 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.248, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
Nature and Culture is published by Berghahn Journals. Its print ISSN is 1558-5468 and its online ISSN is 1558-6073.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nature and Culture has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #129 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Nature and Culture published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 27. 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 47 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (25.5%), Germany (25.2%) and United Kingdom (6.4%).
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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