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Philological Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Iowa.
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ISSN 0031-7977Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Iowa
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 549 / 1186 | 53rd | Q2 |
| History | 1172 / 1936 | 39th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 812 / 1137 | 28th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 911 / 1221 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Philological Quarterly is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 549 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 1172 of 1936) and Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 812 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Philological Quarterly 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Philological Quarterly is published by University of Iowa. Its ISSN is 0031-7977.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Philological Quarterly has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Philological Quarterly published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 27. 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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