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Public Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Duke University Press.
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ISSN 0899-2363Verify ISSN ↗1527-8018Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Duke University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 216 / 692 | 68th | Q2 |
| Communication | 285 / 541 | 47th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 243 / 315 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Public Culture is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 216 of 692), Q3 in Communication (rank 285 of 541) and Q4 in Social Psychology (rank 243 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Culture is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.290, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 93.
Public Culture is published by Duke University Press. Its print ISSN is 0899-2363 and its online ISSN is 1527-8018.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Public Culture has an h-index of 125 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #312 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Public Culture published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 35. 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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