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Journal of Literary Semantics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS AHCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 0341-7638Verify ISSN ↗1613-3838Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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 | 63 / 1186 | 94th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 323 / 1137 | 71st | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 390 / 1221 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of Literary Semantics is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 63 of 1186), Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 323 of 1137) and Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 390 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Literary Semantics 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.219, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
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 Literary Semantics is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 0341-7638 and its online ISSN is 1613-3838.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Literary Semantics has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #155 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Literary Semantics published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 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 73 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (30.8%), China (11.6%) and France (6.8%).
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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