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Poetics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), formerly ABDC A, WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0304-422XVerify ISSN ↗1872-7514Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 4 / 1186 | 99th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 55 / 1434 | 96th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 82 / 1137 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 94 / 1221 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Communication | 90 / 541 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 260 / 1530 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Poetics is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 4 of 1186), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 55 of 1434) and Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 82 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Poetics is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.896, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 86.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Poetics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0304-422X and its online ISSN is 1872-7514.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Poetics has an h-index of 119 and a 2-year mean of 2.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Poetics published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 76. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.8%), Netherlands (8.3%) and Germany (6.7%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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