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Public Relations Inquiry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 2046-147XVerify ISSN ↗2046-1488Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 101 / 1221 | 91st | Q1 |
| Communication | 100 / 541 | 81st | Q1 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 102 / 254 | 60th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 230 / 506 | 54th | Q2 |
| Marketing | 116 / 221 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Public Relations Inquiry is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 101 of 1221), Q1 in Communication (rank 100 of 541) and Q2 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 102 of 254), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Public Relations Inquiry is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.471, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Public Relations Inquiry is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 2046-147X and its online ISSN is 2046-1488.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Public Relations Inquiry has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 2.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Public Relations Inquiry published 34 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.
In its latest 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (33.3%), Australia (21%) and United Kingdom (8.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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