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Literary Imagination is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.1), WoS AHCI. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1523-9012Verify ISSN ↗1752-6566Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,054 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 821 / 1186 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–2024, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.1.
Literary Imagination is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 821 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
Literary Imagination 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,054 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Literary Imagination is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1523-9012 and its online ISSN is 1752-6566.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Literary Imagination has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #787 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Literary Imagination published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 167. 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 14 research articles (2024), authors are most often from United States (78.6%), United Kingdom (14.3%) and Germany (7.1%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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