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MLN - Modern Language Notes 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 Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 796 / 1186 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 959 / 1137 | 15th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 1060 / 1221 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
MLN - Modern Language Notes is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 796 of 1186), Q4 in Language and Linguistics (rank 959 of 1137) and Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 1060 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
MLN - Modern Language Notes 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 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
MLN - Modern Language Notes is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0026-7910 and its online ISSN is 1080-6598.
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.
MLN - Modern Language Notes has an h-index of 141 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #636 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
MLN - Modern Language Notes published 83 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 116. 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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