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Journal of Arabic Literature is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0085-2376Verify ISSN ↗1570-064XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 547 / 1186 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 1015 / 1434 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present (also 1980–1981, 1978, 1976, 1973–1974, 1970–1971), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of Arabic Literature is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 547 of 1186) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 1015 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Arabic Literature is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 18.
Journal of Arabic Literature is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0085-2376 and its online ISSN is 1570-064X.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Arabic Literature has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #407 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Arabic Literature published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 36. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (47.4%), United Kingdom (11.3%) and Italy (7.7%).
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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