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Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2731-4359Verify ISSN ↗2731-4367Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 399 / 1186 | 66th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 878 / 1434 | 38th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 815 / 1221 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Communication | 464 / 541 | 14th | 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 2019–present (also 2017), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 399 of 1186), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 878 of 1434) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 815 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture 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 0.4, quartile Q2, 66th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2731-4359 and its online ISSN is 2731-4367.
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 Science and Popular Culture has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #233 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 41. 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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