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Explicator is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0014-4940Verify ISSN ↗1939-926XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 937 / 1186 | 20th | Q4 |
| Education | 1662 / 1698 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1985, 1982–1983, 1975–1980), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Explicator is Q4 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 937 of 1186) and Q4 in Education (rank 1662 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Explicator 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.123, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Explicator is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0014-4940 and its online ISSN is 1939-926X.
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.
Explicator has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #518 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Explicator published 88 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 90. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (54.8%), United States (18.3%) and South Korea (6.5%). 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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