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American Book Review is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by School of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston-Victoria.
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ISSN 0149-9408Verify ISSN ↗2153-4578Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: School of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston-Victoria
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 1000 / 1186 | 15th | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1334 / 1434 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
American Book Review is Q4 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 1000 of 1186) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1334 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
American Book Review is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 15th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
American Book Review is published by School of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston-Victoria. Its print ISSN is 0149-9408 and its online ISSN is 2153-4578.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Book Review has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #841 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
American Book Review published 154 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 168. 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.
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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