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Journal for the History of Rhetoric is not currently indexed in Scopus. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. Published by Penn State University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2687-8003Verify ISSN ↗2687-8011Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 64 / 1186 | 94th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 324 / 1137 | 71st | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 391 / 1221 | 67th | Q2 |
| Communication | 302 / 541 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (2020–2022).
Journal for the History of Rhetoric 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 1.3, quartile Q1, 94th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Journal for the History of Rhetoric is published by Penn State University Press. Its print ISSN is 2687-8003 and its online ISSN is 2687-8011.
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.
Journal for the History of Rhetoric has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1.
Journal for the History of Rhetoric published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 60. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (87%), Canada (3.1%) and United Kingdom (2.1%). 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: Inactive — coverage ended 2022. 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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