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Journal of Beckett Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0309-5207Verify ISSN ↗1759-7811Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 438 / 1186 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 311 / 697 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Journal of Beckett Studies is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 438 of 1186) and Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 311 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Beckett Studies 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Beckett Studies is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 0309-5207 and its online ISSN is 1759-7811.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Beckett Studies has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #454 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Beckett Studies published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 44. 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 22 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (52.3%), Ireland (13.6%) and China (4.5%). 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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