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Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Michigan State University Press.
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ISSN 1075-7201Verify ISSN ↗1930-1200Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 627 / 1186 | 47th | Q3 |
| Religious Studies | 525 / 760 | 30th | Q3 |
| Philosophy | 632 / 891 | 29th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1089 / 1434 | 24th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1394 / 1530 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 627 of 1186), Q3 in Religious Studies (rank 525 of 760) and Q3 in Philosophy (rank 632 of 891), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture is published by Michigan State University Press. Its print ISSN is 1075-7201 and its online ISSN is 1930-1200.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #561 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 16. 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 (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (38.8%), Canada (8.8%) and Sweden (7.5%).
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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