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Journal of Popular Romance Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), DOAJ. Published by International Association for the Study of Popular Romance.
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ISSN 2159-4473Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Association for the Study of Popular Romance
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 141 / 1186 | 88th | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 148 / 697 | 78th | Q1 |
| Music | 64 / 196 | 67th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 512 / 1434 | 64th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 297 / 692 | 57th | Q2 |
| Communication | 381 / 541 | 29th | 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 0.8.
Journal of Popular Romance Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 141 of 1186), Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 148 of 697) and Q2 in Music (rank 64 of 196), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Popular Romance 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 0.8, quartile Q1, 88th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.171, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 3.
Journal of Popular Romance Studies is published by International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Its ISSN is 2159-4473.
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 Popular Romance Studies has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Popular Romance Studies published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 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 18 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.8%), Australia (16.7%) and Canada (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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