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French Studies Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Liverpool University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0262-2750Verify ISSN ↗1748-9180Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Cost to publish: About US$2,189 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 646 / 1186 | 45th | Q3 |
| History | 1304 / 1936 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 867 / 1137 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1096 / 1434 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 972 / 1221 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
French Studies Bulletin is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 646 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 1304 of 1936) and Q4 in Language and Linguistics (rank 867 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
French Studies Bulletin 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,189 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.
French Studies Bulletin is published by Liverpool University Press. Its print ISSN is 0262-2750 and its online ISSN is 1748-9180.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
French Studies Bulletin has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #591 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
French Studies Bulletin published 30 papers in 2025. 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 70 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (50%), United States (10.7%) and Australia (10.7%). 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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