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Intercultural Education

Routledge · United Kingdom · Est. 1971

ISSN1467-5986eISSN1469-8439

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.403

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.729

Total Worksi

1,461

Total Citationsi

23,437

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.11

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Intercultural Education focuses on issues of intercultural education and the relationship between education, the state, and social and cultural diversity. Topics covered include terminological issues, education and multicultural society today, intercultural communication, human rights and anti-racist education, pluralism and diversity in a democratic framework, pluralism in post-communist and post-colonial countries, migration and indigenous minority issues, refugee issues, language policy issues, curriculum and classroom organisation, and school development.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1971

FrequencyBimonthly, 2008-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,461

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1467-5986 / 1469-8439

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.1k

2019

601

2020

456

2021

427

2022

185

2023

138

2024

140

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Cultural StudiesQ1

EducationQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education & Educational Research

Scopus Categories

Cultural StudiesEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Global Education and MulticulturalismInternational Student and Expatriate ChallengesEducator Training and Historical PedagogyReligious Education and SchoolsMultilingual Education and PolicySecond Language Learning and TeachingEducation and experiences of immigrants and refugeesEFL/ESL Teaching and LearningGlobal Educational Policies and ReformsTeacher Education and Leadership Studies

Frequently asked questions about Intercultural Education

Is Intercultural Education a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Intercultural Education: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Intercultural Education?

Intercultural Education is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.11.

Is Intercultural Education indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Intercultural Education is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.