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Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by McGill University Library.
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ISSN 2561-3111Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: McGill University Library
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 217 / 1186 | 81st | Q1 |
| History | 634 / 1936 | 67th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 329 / 536 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 217 of 1186), Q2 in History (rank 634 of 1936) and Q3 in Anthropology (rank 329 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 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 0.6, quartile Q1, 81st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.188, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 4.
Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies is published by McGill University Library. Its ISSN is 2561-3111.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #264 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 19. 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 45 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.8%), Canada (13.3%) and United Kingdom (11.1%).
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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