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Visitor Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.4), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 1, 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 1064-5578Verify ISSN ↗1934-7715Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museology | 5 / 96 | 95th | Q1 |
| Communication | 138 / 541 | 74th | Q2 |
| Education | 549 / 1698 | 67th | Q2 |
| Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management | 84 / 156 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present (also 1992–1993, 1988–1989), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.4.
Visitor Studies is Q1 in Museology (rank 5 of 96), Q2 in Communication (rank 138 of 541) and Q2 in Education (rank 549 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Visitor Studies 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.793, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
Visitor Studies is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1064-5578 and its online ISSN is 1934-7715.
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 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.
Visitor Studies has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 1.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 86 Scopus journals in Museology.
Visitor Studies published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 19. 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 61 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (58.2%), United Kingdom (8.2%) and Australia (8.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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