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South Asian Popular Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1474-6689Verify ISSN ↗1474-6697Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 127 / 697 | 81st | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 462 / 1434 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
South Asian Popular Culture is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 127 of 697) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 462 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
South Asian Popular Culture 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.181, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
South Asian Popular Culture is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1474-6689 and its online ISSN is 1474-6697.
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.
South Asian Popular Culture has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
South Asian Popular Culture published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 29. 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 90 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from India (47.8%), United States (26.1%) and United Kingdom (10.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (3.9 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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