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Gothic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
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ISSN 1362-7937Verify ISSN ↗2050-456XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 283 / 1186 | 75th | Q1 |
| History | 749 / 1936 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 1999–2013), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
Gothic Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 283 of 1186) and Q2 in History (rank 749 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025.
Gothic Studies 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 17.
Gothic Studies is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 1362-7937 and its online ISSN is 2050-456X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Gothic Studies has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #518 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Gothic Studies published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 42. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (48.2%), United States (26.5%) and Ireland (6%).
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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