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Media Culture & Society

ISSN 0163-4437 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom · active 1979–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
2.8
SJR
1.957
h-index
121

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

Access status: unknown. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

mediacommunicationsocialpoliticsgenderfeminismculturalindustriesurbandevelopmentdigitalgames

Frequently asked

Is Media Culture & Society a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Media Culture & Society. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Media Culture & Society indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Media Culture & Society appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is Media Culture & Society's impact?

Papers in Media Culture & Society are cited about 2.8 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 121. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Media Culture & Society open access?

We hold no reliable open-access classification for Media Culture & Society. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.

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