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Comparative Critical Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
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ISSN 1744-1854Verify ISSN ↗1750-0109Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 386 / 1186 | 67th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 862 / 1434 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Comparative Critical Studies is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 386 of 1186) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 862 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Comparative Critical Studies 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.107, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Comparative Critical Studies is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 1744-1854 and its online ISSN is 1750-0109.
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.
Comparative Critical Studies has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #454 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Comparative Critical Studies published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 54. 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 40 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (39.2%), United States (10.4%) and Spain (8.8%).
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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