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Journal of Contemporary Drama in English is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 2195-0156Verify ISSN ↗2195-0164Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 460 / 1186 | 61st | Q2 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 326 / 697 | 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 Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 460 of 1186) and Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 326 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2195-0156 and its online ISSN is 2195-0164.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #191 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 43. 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 88 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Germany (27.3%), United Kingdom (17.6%) and Austria (12.5%).
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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