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Modern Language Review is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS AHCI. Published by Modern Humanities Research Association.
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ISSN 0026-7937Verify ISSN ↗2222-4319Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 899 / 1186 | 24th | Q4 |
| Language and Linguistics | 1014 / 1137 | 10th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 1103 / 1221 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Modern Language Review is Q4 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 899 of 1186), Q4 in Language and Linguistics (rank 1014 of 1137) and Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 1103 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Modern Language Review 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.105, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
Modern Language Review is published by Modern Humanities Research Association. Its print ISSN is 0026-7937 and its online ISSN is 2222-4319.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Modern Language Review has an h-index of 174 and a 2-year mean of 0.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #841 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Modern Language Review published 151 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 475. 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.
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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