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Modern Philology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0026-8232Verify ISSN ↗1545-6951Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 539 / 1186 | 54th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 1003 / 1434 | 30th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 805 / 1137 | 29th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 904 / 1221 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1986, 1984, 1925, 1905), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Modern Philology is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 539 of 1186), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 1003 of 1434) and Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 805 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Modern Philology 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 21.
Modern Philology is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0026-8232 and its online ISSN is 1545-6951.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Modern Philology has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #730 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Modern Philology published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 151. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (74%), United Kingdom (11.5%) and Canada (6.3%). 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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