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Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2634-6397Verify ISSN ↗2634-6400Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 613 / 692 | 11th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 1128 / 1221 | 7th | Q4 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 712 / 744 | 4th | Q4 |
| Communication | 522 / 541 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1483 / 1530 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Development | 308 / 314 | 2nd | 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 2024–2025 (also 2021, 2018, 2014–2016), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change is Q4 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 613 of 692), Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 1128 of 1221) and Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 712 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 11th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2634-6397 and its online ISSN is 2634-6400.
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 Studies in Communication for Social Change has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #229 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 44. 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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