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QED is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Michigan State University Press.
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ISSN 2327-1574Verify ISSN ↗2327-1590Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 1052 / 1434 | 26th | Q3 |
| Gender Studies | 208 / 233 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
QED is Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 1052 of 1434) and Q4 in Gender Studies (rank 208 of 233), by CiteScore 2025.
QED 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 26th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.110, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
QED is published by Michigan State University Press. Its print ISSN is 2327-1574 and its online ISSN is 2327-1590.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
QED has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #657 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
QED published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 71. 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 33 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from United States (93.9%) and India (6.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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