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Orbit: A Journal of American Literature is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), DOAJ. Published by Open Library of Humanities.
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ISSN 2398-6786Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 770 / 1186 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2017–2023), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 770 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 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, 35th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.113, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature is published by Open Library of Humanities. Its ISSN is 2398-6786.
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.
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #362 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Orbit: A Journal of American Literature published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 21. 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 39 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (38.5%), United Kingdom (14.1%) and Germany (11.5%).
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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