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Marvels and Tales 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 Wayne State University Press.
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ISSN 1521-4281Verify ISSN ↗1536-1802Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 670 / 1186 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1114 / 1434 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Anthropology | 464 / 536 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Marvels and Tales is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 670 of 1186), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1114 of 1434) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 464 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Marvels and Tales 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 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Marvels and Tales is published by Wayne State University Press. Its print ISSN is 1521-4281 and its online ISSN is 1536-1802.
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.
Marvels and Tales has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #688 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Marvels and Tales published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 81. 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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