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Palgrave Studies in Life Writing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2730-9185Verify ISSN ↗2730-9193Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 56 / 1186 | 95th | Q1 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 47 / 61 | 23rd | 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 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 56 of 1186) and Q4 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 47 of 61), by CiteScore 2025.
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing 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 1.3, quartile Q1, 95th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2730-9185 and its online ISSN is 2730-9193.
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.
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #344 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 70. 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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