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Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Michigan State University.
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ISSN 1522-3868Verify ISSN ↗1544-1733Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Michigan State University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 1135 / 1186 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction is Q4 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 1135 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 4th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.100, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 2.
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction is published by Michigan State University. Its print ISSN is 1522-3868 and its online ISSN is 1544-1733.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #841 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 55. 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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