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Southern Cultures is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of North Carolina Press.
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ISSN 1068-8218Verify ISSN ↗1534-1488Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 120 / 175 | 31st | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1033 / 1434 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Southern Cultures is Q3 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 120 of 175) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 1033 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Southern Cultures is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
Southern Cultures is published by University of North Carolina Press. Its print ISSN is 1068-8218 and its online ISSN is 1534-1488.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Southern Cultures has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Southern Cultures published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 68. 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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