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Tourism Recreation Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.3), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0250-8281Verify ISSN ↗2320-0308Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 5 / 1434 | 99th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 32 / 876 | 96th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 41 / 432 | 90th | Q1 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 23 / 156 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.3.
Tourism Recreation Research is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 5 of 1434), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 32 of 876) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 41 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Tourism Recreation Research 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 11.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.018, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
Tourism Recreation Research is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0250-8281 and its online ISSN is 2320-0308.
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.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Tourism.
It is graded 2 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 Recreation Research has an h-index of 85 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Tourism Recreation Research published 185 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (10.7%), United States (9.2%) and Australia (7.9%).
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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