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Palgrave Critical University Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2662-7329Verify ISSN ↗2662-7337Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 373 / 891 | 58th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 654 / 1434 | 54th | Q2 |
| Education | 1416 / 1698 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2025 (also 2019, 2016–2017), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Palgrave Critical University Studies is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 373 of 891), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 654 of 1434) and Q4 in Education (rank 1416 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Palgrave Critical University Studies 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 0.6, quartile Q2, 58th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Palgrave Critical University Studies is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2662-7329 and its online ISSN is 2662-7337.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Palgrave Critical University Studies has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #312 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Palgrave Critical University Studies published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 36. 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.
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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