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Matatu is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Rodopi.
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ISSN 0932-9714Verify ISSN ↗1875-7421Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Rodopi
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 688 / 1186 | 41st | Q3 |
| History | 1350 / 1936 | 30th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1123 / 1434 | 21st | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1408 / 1530 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2011–2017), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Matatu is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 688 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 1350 of 1936) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1123 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Matatu 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Matatu is published by Brill Rodopi. Its print ISSN is 0932-9714 and its online ISSN is 1875-7421.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Matatu has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #249 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Matatu published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 56. 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 90 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (28.7%), Nigeria (12.6%) and Germany (12.2%).
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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