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Horror Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 2040-3275Verify ISSN ↗2040-3283Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 455 / 1186 | 61st | Q2 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 319 / 697 | 54th | Q2 |
| Music | 111 / 196 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Horror Studies is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 455 of 1186), Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 319 of 697) and Q3 in Music (rank 111 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Horror 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Horror Studies is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2040-3275 and its online ISSN is 2040-3283.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Horror Studies has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #362 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Horror Studies published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 20. 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 68 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (39.3%), United Kingdom (31.6%) and Poland (5.9%).
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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