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Narrative is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Ohio State University Press.
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ISSN 1063-3685Verify ISSN ↗1538-974XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 59 / 1186 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Narrative is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 59 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
Narrative 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.148, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 43.
Narrative is published by Ohio State University Press. Its print ISSN is 1063-3685 and its online ISSN is 1538-974X.
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.
Narrative has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 0.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Narrative published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 54. 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 16 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from Denmark (25%), Netherlands (18.8%) and Finland (12.5%).
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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