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Global Shakespeares is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2947-8901Verify ISSN ↗2947-891XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 695 / 1186 | 41st | Q3 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 429 / 697 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present (also 2018, 2016, 2014), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Global Shakespeares is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 695 of 1186) and Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 429 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Shakespeares 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, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Global Shakespeares is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2947-8901 and its online ISSN is 2947-891X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Shakespeares has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #389 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Global Shakespeares published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 27. 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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