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Psychology of Popular Media is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 2689-6567Verify ISSN ↗2689-6575Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 45 / 1434 | 96th | Q1 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 17 / 118 | 86th | Q1 |
| Communication | 78 / 541 | 85th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 83 / 258 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Psychology of Popular Media is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 45 of 1434), Q1 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 17 of 118) and Q1 in Communication (rank 78 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Psychology of Popular Media is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.658, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
Psychology of Popular Media is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 2689-6567 and its online ISSN is 2689-6575.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychology of Popular Media has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 1.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Psychology of Popular Media published 98 papers in 2025. 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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