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Palabra Clave is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universidad de La Sabana.
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ISSN 0122-8285Verify ISSN ↗2027-534XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad de La Sabana
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 43 / 175 | 75th | Q1 |
| Communication | 322 / 541 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Palabra Clave is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 43 of 175) and Q3 in Communication (rank 322 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Palabra Clave 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.220, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
Palabra Clave is published by Universidad de La Sabana. Its print ISSN is 0122-8285 and its online ISSN is 2027-534X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Palabra Clave has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Palabra Clave published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 67. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Spain (59.8%), Colombia (7.7%) and Brazil (7.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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