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Multicultural Shakespeare is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Lodz University Press.
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ISSN 2083-8530Verify ISSN ↗2300-7605Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lodz University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 624 / 1186 | 47th | Q3 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 407 / 697 | 41st | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 856 / 1137 | 24th | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1081 / 1434 | 24th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 957 / 1221 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–2025 (also 2011–2013), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Multicultural Shakespeare is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 624 of 1186), Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 407 of 697) and Q4 in Language and Linguistics (rank 856 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Multicultural Shakespeare is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.100, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Multicultural Shakespeare is published by Lodz University Press. Its print ISSN is 2083-8530 and its online ISSN is 2300-7605.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Multicultural Shakespeare has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #787 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Multicultural Shakespeare published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 36. 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 95 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from Poland (15.3%), United States (13%) and Ukraine (11.6%).
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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