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Journal of Romance Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Liverpool University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1473-3536Verify ISSN ↗1752-2331Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 821 / 1186 | 30th | Q3 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 506 / 697 | 27th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1218 / 1434 | 15th | Q4 |
| Language and Linguistics | 975 / 1137 | 14th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 1072 / 1221 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.1.
Journal of Romance Studies is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 821 of 1186), Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 506 of 697) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1218 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Romance Studies 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.105, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Journal of Romance Studies is published by Liverpool University Press. Its print ISSN is 1473-3536 and its online ISSN is 1752-2331.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Romance Studies has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #407 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Romance Studies published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 37. 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 90 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (42.4%), United States (20.9%) and Italy (10.4%).
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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