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CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI, DOAJ. Published by Purdue University Press.
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ISSN 1481-4374Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Purdue University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 179 / 1186 | 84th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 590 / 1434 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 179 of 1186) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 590 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.140, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture is published by Purdue University Press. Its ISSN is 1481-4374.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #636 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 78. 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 88 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.9%), Canada (11.4%) and China (11.4%).
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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