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Wacana is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia.
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ISSN 1411-2272Verify ISSN ↗2407-6899Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 47 / 175 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 430 / 1434 | 70th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 252 / 536 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 181 / 296 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Wacana is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 47 of 175), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 430 of 1434) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 252 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Wacana 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.196, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
Wacana is published by Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia. Its print ISSN is 1411-2272 and its online ISSN is 2407-6899.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Wacana has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Wacana published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 41. 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 92 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (48.6%), Netherlands (13%) and Australia (10.5%).
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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