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NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by Umea University Department of Language Studies.
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ISSN 1502-7694Verify ISSN ↗1654-6970Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Umea University Department of Language Studies
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 202 / 1186 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 524 / 1137 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 630 / 1221 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–2009 (also 2011–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 202 of 1186), Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 524 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 630 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies 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 0.6, quartile Q1, 82nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.175, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies is published by Umea University Department of Language Studies. Its print ISSN is 1502-7694 and its online ISSN is 1654-6970.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 69. 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 78 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (46.8%), Norway (7.7%) and Germany (5.8%).
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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