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Open Cultural Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 2451-3474Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 32 / 175 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 148 / 286 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.4.
Open Cultural Studies is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 32 of 175) and Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 148 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Open Cultural Studies 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,187 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Open Cultural Studies is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its ISSN is 2451-3474.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Cultural Studies has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Open Cultural Studies published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 74. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Jordan (13.2%), Saudi Arabia (9.5%) and Spain (5.2%).
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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