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Narrative Inquiry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.2), ABDC B, WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1387-6740Verify ISSN ↗1569-9935Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 20 / 1186 | 98th | Q1 |
| History | 96 / 1936 | 95th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 268 / 744 | 64th | Q2 |
| Education | 839 / 1698 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.2.
Narrative Inquiry is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 20 of 1186), Q1 in History (rank 96 of 1936) and Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 268 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Narrative Inquiry is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.323, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
Narrative Inquiry is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1387-6740 and its online ISSN is 1569-9935.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Narrative Inquiry has an h-index of 71 and a 2-year mean of 1.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Narrative Inquiry published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 55. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.3%), Finland (11.7%) and China (9.5%).
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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