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New Directions in Book History is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2634-6117Verify ISSN ↗2634-6125Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 656 / 1186 | 44th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 977 / 1221 | 19th | Q4 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 262 / 296 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
New Directions in Book History is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 656 of 1186), Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 977 of 1221) and Q4 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 262 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
New Directions in Book History is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3, 44th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
New Directions in Book History is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2634-6117 and its online ISSN is 2634-6125.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
New Directions in Book History has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #485 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
New Directions in Book History published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 96. 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.
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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