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Social and Cultural Geography is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1464-9365Verify ISSN ↗1470-1197Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 27 / 1434 | 98th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 144 / 876 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
Social and Cultural Geography is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 27 of 1434) and Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 144 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Social and Cultural Geography is indexed in the 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 0.858, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 99.
Social and Cultural Geography is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1464-9365 and its online ISSN is 1470-1197.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social and Cultural Geography has an h-index of 113 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Social and Cultural Geography published 90 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 124. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (31.8%), Australia (10.1%) and United States (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (2 per 1,000 papers). 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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