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Technical Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5). Published by Society for Technical Communication.
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ISSN 0049-3155Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society for Technical Communication
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 176 / 744 | 76th | Q1 |
| Communication | 134 / 541 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2024 (also 1987–1988, 1973–1985), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
Technical Communication is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 176 of 744) and Q1 in Communication (rank 134 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Technical Communication is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1, 76th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.294, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
Technical Communication is published by Society for Technical Communication. Its ISSN is 0049-3155.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Technical Communication has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 2.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Technical Communication published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 22. 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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