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Journal of World Literature is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2405-6472Verify ISSN ↗2405-6480Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 186 / 1186 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2016), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of World Literature is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 186 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of World Literature 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.141, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Journal of World Literature is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2405-6472 and its online ISSN is 2405-6480.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of World Literature has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #295 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of World Literature published 39 papers in 2025. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.1%), United Kingdom (12.8%) and Germany (12.6%).
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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