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Tourism, Culture and Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Cognizant Communication Corporation.
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ISSN 1098-304XVerify ISSN ↗1943-4146Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cognizant Communication Corporation
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 217 / 1434 | 84th | Q1 |
| Communication | 237 / 541 | 56th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 459 / 876 | 47th | Q3 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 116 / 156 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Tourism, Culture and Communication is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 217 of 1434), Q2 in Communication (rank 237 of 541) and Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 459 of 876), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Tourism, Culture and Communication 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 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.264, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
Tourism, Culture and Communication is published by Cognizant Communication Corporation. Its print ISSN is 1098-304X and its online ISSN is 1943-4146.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Tourism.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tourism, Culture and Communication has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #515 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Tourism, Culture and Communication published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 59. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (12.7%), United States (8.1%) and Spain (6.9%).
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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