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October is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS AHCI. Published by MIT Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0162-2870Verify ISSN ↗1536-013XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 634 / 1186 | 46th | Q3 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 412 / 697 | 40th | Q3 |
| Music | 141 / 196 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
October is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 634 of 1186), Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 412 of 697) and Q3 in Music (rank 141 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
October 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.132, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
October is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 0162-2870 and its online ISSN is 1536-013X.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
October has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #249 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
October published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 40. 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 15 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (73.3%), Russia (13.3%) and France (6.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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