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Modernist Cultures is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS AHCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1753-8629Verify ISSN ↗2041-1022Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 676 / 1186 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 424 / 697 | 39th | Q3 |
| History | 1339 / 1936 | 30th | Q3 |
| Music | 146 / 196 | 25th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1117 / 1434 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1406 / 1530 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Modernist Cultures is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 676 of 1186), Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 424 of 697) and Q3 in History (rank 1339 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Modernist Cultures 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 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.105, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
Modernist Cultures is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 1753-8629 and its online ISSN is 2041-1022.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Modernist Cultures has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #454 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Modernist Cultures published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 45. 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 32 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (70.3%), United States (12.5%) and Japan (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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