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Manuscripta Orientalia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Thesa Publishers.
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ISSN 1238-5018Verify ISSN ↗2415-3613Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Thesa Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 272 / 1186 | 77th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 731 / 1434 | 49th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 592 / 1137 | 47th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 706 / 1221 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 227 / 296 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
Manuscripta Orientalia is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 272 of 1186), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 731 of 1434) and Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 592 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Manuscripta Orientalia is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1, 77th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.269, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 4.
Manuscripta Orientalia is published by Thesa Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1238-5018 and its online ISSN is 2415-3613.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Manuscripta Orientalia has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #591 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Manuscripta Orientalia published 29 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.
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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