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Middle Eastern Literatures 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 Routledge.
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ISSN 1475-262XVerify ISSN ↗1475-2638Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 327 / 1186 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Middle Eastern Literatures is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 327 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
Middle Eastern Literatures 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 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.131, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Middle Eastern Literatures is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1475-262X and its online ISSN is 1475-2638.
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.
Middle Eastern Literatures has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #389 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Middle Eastern Literatures published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 32. 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 89 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (41.6%), Türkiye (21.3%) and United Kingdom (10.7%).
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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