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Representations is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by University of California Press.
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ISSN 0734-6018Verify ISSN ↗1533-855XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 35 / 175 | 80th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 338 / 1434 | 76th | Q1 |
| Gender Studies | 113 / 233 | 51st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 825 / 1530 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Representations is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 35 of 175), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 338 of 1434) and Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 113 of 233), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Representations 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.250, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
Representations is published by University of California Press. Its print ISSN is 0734-6018 and its online ISSN is 1533-855X.
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.
Representations has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Representations published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 50. 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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