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Critical Inquiry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0093-1896Verify ISSN ↗1539-7858Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 11 / 175 | 94th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 156 / 1434 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1985–1987, 1976), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Critical Inquiry is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 11 of 175) and Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 156 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Inquiry is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.435, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 89.
Critical Inquiry is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0093-1896 and its online ISSN is 1539-7858.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Critical Inquiry has an h-index of 148 and a 2-year mean of 0.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Critical Inquiry published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 132. 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.
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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