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Journal of Postcolonial Writing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1744-9855Verify ISSN ↗1744-9863Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 135 / 1186 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 135 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.207, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 25.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1744-9855 and its online ISSN is 1744-9863.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #103 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 113. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (26.6%), United States (10.3%) and United Kingdom (9.8%).
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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