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Ikala is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), DOAJ. Published by Universidad de Antioquia.
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ISSN 0123-3432Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad de Antioquia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 42 / 1186 | 96th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 269 / 1434 | 81st | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 290 / 1137 | 74th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 345 / 1221 | 71st | Q2 |
| Education | 1035 / 1698 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Ikala is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 42 of 1186), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 269 of 1434) and Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 290 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Ikala 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 1.5, quartile Q1, 96th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.297, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
Ikala is published by Universidad de Antioquia. Its ISSN is 0123-3432.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Ikala has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Ikala published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 45. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Colombia (32.6%), Spain (27.8%) and Chile (8.8%).
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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