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Public Relations Inquiry

SAGE Publications Inc. · United Kingdom · Est. 2012

ISSN2046-1488

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.471

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.223

Total Worksi

323

Total Citationsi

4,050

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.27

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Communication; Linguistics and Language; Strategy and Management; Marketing; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2012

Annual Volume~ 26 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications323

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

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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?

SAGE Publications Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2046-1488

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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

603

2019

302

2020

415

2021

172

2022

120

2023

2024

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.

Linguistics and LanguageQ1

CommunicationQ2

Strategy and ManagementQ2

MarketingQ3

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Communication

Scopus Categories

Strategy and ManagementOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementCommunicationLinguistics and LanguageMarketing

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Public Relations and Crisis CommunicationMedia Studies and CommunicationRhetoric and Communication StudiesCommunication in Education and HealthcareSocial Media and PoliticsManagement and Organizational StudiesCorporate Identity and ReputationGender, Feminism, and MediaDisaster Management and ResilienceDiscourse Analysis in Language Studies

Frequently asked questions about Public Relations Inquiry

Is Public Relations Inquiry a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Public Relations Inquiry: 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 Public Relations Inquiry?

Public Relations Inquiry 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 1.27.

Is Public Relations Inquiry indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Public Relations Inquiry is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Public Relations Inquiry?