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Critical Theory is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), DOAJ. Published by Porcelain Publishing International LTD.
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ISSN 2515-4702Verify ISSN ↗2753-5193Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Porcelain Publishing International LTD
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 794 / 1186 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 540 / 692 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1207 / 1434 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Critical Theory is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 794 of 1186), Q4 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 540 of 692) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1207 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Theory is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3, 33rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 1.
Critical Theory is published by Porcelain Publishing International LTD. Its print ISSN is 2515-4702 and its online ISSN is 2753-5193.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Critical Theory has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Critical Theory published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 19. 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 13 research articles (2024), authors are most often from China (80.8%), United Kingdom (7.7%) and Germany (7.7%). 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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