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Critical Review is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0891-3811Verify ISSN ↗1933-8007Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 14 / 1186 | 98th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 242 / 745 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–2025 (also 2003, 1986–2000), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.4.
Critical Review is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 14 of 1186) and Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 242 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Review is indexed in the 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.683, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 36.
Critical Review is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0891-3811 and its online ISSN is 1933-8007.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Critical Review has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Critical Review published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 30. 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 17 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from United States (47.1%), United Kingdom (23.5%) and Czechia (5.9%).
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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