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Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Faculty of Letters.
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ISSN 2457-8827Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Faculty of Letters
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 113 / 1186 | 90th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 50 / 175 | 71st | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 181 / 286 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 113 of 1186), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 50 of 175) and Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 181 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.136, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is published by Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Faculty of Letters. Its ISSN is 2457-8827.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #149 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 37. 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 94 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Romania (54.3%), India (8%) and Germany (4.3%). 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.
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