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Science as Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0950-5431Verify ISSN ↗1470-1189Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 26 / 1434 | 98th | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 9 / 254 | 96th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 142 / 1530 | 90th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 45 / 387 | 88th | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 124 / 342 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Biotechnology | 121 / 325 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
Science as Culture is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 26 of 1434), Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 9 of 254) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 142 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Science as 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.089, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 56.
Science as Culture is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0950-5431 and its online ISSN is 1470-1189.
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.
Science as Culture has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 1.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Science as Culture published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 39. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (16%), Canada (9.3%) 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.
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