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Journal of Screenwriting is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 1759-7137Verify ISSN ↗1759-7145Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 267 / 1186 | 77th | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 223 / 697 | 68th | Q2 |
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 Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Screenwriting is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 267 of 1186) and Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 223 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Screenwriting 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.126, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
Journal of Screenwriting is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1759-7137 and its online ISSN is 1759-7145.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Screenwriting has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #389 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Screenwriting published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 36. 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 89 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Australia (22.5%), United Kingdom (22.5%) and United States (7.3%).
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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