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South Asian Popular Culture

Routledge · United Kingdom · Est. 2003

ISSN1474-6689eISSN1474-6697

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.181

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.801

Total Worksi

498

Total Citationsi

2,906

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.46

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

South Asian Popular Culture publishes clearly written, well-researched, and academically rigorous work of international standing. It invites submissions using current theoretical paradigms and methodology. The journal is categorized under Cultural Studies and Asian Studies.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2003

Annual Volume~ 19 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2024)

Total Publications498

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

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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?

1474-6689 / 1474-6697

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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

2018

107

2019

199

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

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.

Visual Arts and Performing ArtsQ1

Cultural StudiesQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Asian StudiesCultural Studies

Scopus Categories

Cultural StudiesVisual Arts and Performing Arts

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

South Asian Cinema and CultureCinema and Media StudiesSouth Asian Studies and ConflictsSouth Asian Studies and DiasporaShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary CriticismSocioeconomic Development in AsiaAnthropological Studies and InsightsMedia, Gender, and AdvertisingMusic History and CultureAsian Culture and Media Studies

Frequently asked questions about South Asian Popular Culture

Is South Asian Popular Culture a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for South Asian Popular Culture: 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 South Asian Popular Culture?

South Asian Popular Culture 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 0.46.

Is South Asian Popular Culture indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

South Asian Popular Culture is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.