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International Journal of English Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Universidad de Murcia.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1578-7044Verify ISSN ↗1989-6131Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad de Murcia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 152 / 1186 | 87th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 547 / 1434 | 61st | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 469 / 1137 | 58th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 565 / 1221 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
International Journal of English Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 152 of 1186), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 547 of 1434) and Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 469 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of English 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.153, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 17.
International Journal of English Studies is published by Universidad de Murcia. Its print ISSN is 1578-7044 and its online ISSN is 1989-6131.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of English Studies has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
International Journal of English Studies published 27 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 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (81.5%), Poland (3.8%) and Canada (2.2%). 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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