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MELUS is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
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ISSN 0163-755XVerify ISSN ↗1946-3170Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Cost to publish: About US$2,328 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 309 / 1186 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 765 / 1434 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present (also 1992–1995, 1989–1990, 1987, 1977–1985, 1974–1975), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
MELUS is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 309 of 1186) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 765 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
MELUS 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.156, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,328 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.
MELUS is published by Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Its print ISSN is 0163-755X and its online ISSN is 1946-3170.
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.
MELUS has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #636 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
MELUS published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 92. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (88.7%), Finland (2.1%) and United Kingdom (2.1%). 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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