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Pacific Coast Philology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Penn State University Press.
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ISSN 0078-7469Verify ISSN ↗2326-067XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 1020 / 1186 | 13th | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1346 / 1434 | 6th | Q4 |
| Language and Linguistics | 1073 / 1137 | 5th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 1164 / 1221 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2024, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Pacific Coast Philology is Q4 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 1020 of 1186), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1346 of 1434) and Q4 in Language and Linguistics (rank 1073 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Pacific Coast Philology is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 13th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Pacific Coast Philology is published by Penn State University Press. Its print ISSN is 0078-7469 and its online ISSN is 2326-067X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pacific Coast Philology has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Pacific Coast Philology published 29 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 53. 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 57 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (89.5%), United Kingdom (5.3%) and China (1.8%). 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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