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Alif is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by American University in Cairo.
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ISSN 1110-8673Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American University in Cairo
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 892 / 1186 | 24th | Q4 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 550 / 697 | 20th | Q4 |
| Communication | 519 / 541 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Alif is Q4 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 892 of 1186), Q4 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 550 of 697) and Q4 in Communication (rank 519 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Alif is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4, 24th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.175, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 3.
Alif is published by American University in Cairo. Its ISSN is 1110-8673.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Alif has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #688 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Alif published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 32. 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 18 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Egypt (22.2%), Germany (11.1%) and United Kingdom (11.1%).
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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