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SEARCH Journal of Media and Communication Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Taylor's University Lakeside Campus.
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ISSN 2672-7080Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor's University Lakeside Campus
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 16 / 175 | 91st | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 215 / 1434 | 85th | Q1 |
| Communication | 234 / 541 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
SEARCH Journal of Media and Communication Research is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 16 of 175), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 215 of 1434) and Q2 in Communication (rank 234 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
SEARCH Journal of Media and Communication Research 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.294, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
SEARCH Journal of Media and Communication Research is published by Taylor's University Lakeside Campus. Its ISSN is 2672-7080.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
SEARCH Journal of Media and Communication Research has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
SEARCH Journal of Media and Communication Research published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 14. 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 23 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from Malaysia (65.2%), Indonesia (13%) and Vietnam (4.3%). 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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