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Pop Music, Culture, and Identity is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2634-6613Verify ISSN ↗2634-6621Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 95 / 196 | 51st | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 764 / 1434 | 46th | Q3 |
| Communication | 441 / 541 | 18th | 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 2014–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Pop Music, Culture, and Identity is Q2 in Music (rank 95 of 196), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 764 of 1434) and Q4 in Communication (rank 441 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Pop Music, Culture, and Identity 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 0.5, quartile Q2, 51st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Pop Music, Culture, and Identity is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2634-6613 and its online ISSN is 2634-6621.
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.
Pop Music, Culture, and Identity has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 184 Scopus journals in Music.
Pop Music, Culture, and Identity published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 79. 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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