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Publishing Research Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1053-8801Verify ISSN ↗1936-4792Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 94 / 541 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Media Technology | 18 / 83 | 78th | Q1 |
| Business and International Management | 184 / 456 | 59th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 415 / 1022 | 59th | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 134 / 317 | 57th | Q2 |
| Marketing | 112 / 221 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Publishing Research Quarterly is Q1 in Communication (rank 94 of 541), Q1 in Media Technology (rank 18 of 83) and Q2 in Business and International Management (rank 184 of 456), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Publishing Research Quarterly 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.511, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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.
Publishing Research Quarterly is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1053-8801 and its online ISSN is 1936-4792.
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 C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Publishing Research Quarterly has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #267 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Publishing Research Quarterly published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 81. 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.8%), Australia (18.1%) and United Kingdom (9.3%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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