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Journal of the Southwest is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Arizona.
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ISSN 0894-8410Verify ISSN ↗2158-1371Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Arizona
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 740 / 1186 | 37th | Q3 |
| History | 1425 / 1936 | 26th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1164 / 1434 | 18th | Q4 |
| Anthropology | 480 / 536 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal of the Southwest is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 740 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 1425 of 1936) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1164 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of the Southwest 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.104, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Journal of the Southwest is published by University of Arizona. Its print ISSN is 0894-8410 and its online ISSN is 2158-1371.
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 the Southwest has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #518 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of the Southwest published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 47. 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 11 research articles (2025), authors are most often from United States (90.9%) and Mexico (9.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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