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Asiatic is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by International Islamic University Malaysia.
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ISSN 1985-3106Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Islamic University Malaysia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 307 / 1186 | 74th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 624 / 1137 | 45th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 736 / 1221 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Asiatic is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 307 of 1186), Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 624 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 736 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Asiatic is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.143, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Asiatic is published by International Islamic University Malaysia. Its ISSN is 1985-3106.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asiatic has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #591 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Asiatic published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 82. 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 70 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (27.9%), Malaysia (20%) and Bangladesh (17.9%).
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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