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Comparative Literature: East and West is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Informa Healthcare.
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ISSN 2572-3618Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 295 / 1186 | 75th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 753 / 1434 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
Comparative Literature: East and West is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 295 of 1186) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 753 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Comparative Literature: East and West 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 Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$944 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Comparative Literature: East and West is published by Informa Healthcare. Its ISSN is 2572-3618.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Comparative Literature: East and West has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Comparative Literature: East and West published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 22. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (28.3%), India (7.2%) and United Kingdom (6%).
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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