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Critical Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0011-1562Verify ISSN ↗1467-8705Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 784 / 1186 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1200 / 1434 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1959–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Critical Quarterly is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 784 of 1186) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1200 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Quarterly 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.103, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 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.
Critical Quarterly is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0011-1562 and its online ISSN is 1467-8705.
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.
Critical Quarterly has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #688 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Critical Quarterly published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 77. 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 49 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (72.4%), United States (16.3%) and Netherlands (2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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