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Renaissance Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0034-4338Verify ISSN ↗1935-0236Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 78 / 1186 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 88 / 697 | 87th | Q1 |
| History | 292 / 1936 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–2025 (also 1996, 1993–1994, 1987–1991, 1984–1985, 1982, 1976–1979, 1971–1972), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Renaissance Quarterly is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 78 of 1186), Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 88 of 697) and Q1 in History (rank 292 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025.
Renaissance 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Renaissance Quarterly is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0034-4338 and its online ISSN is 1935-0236.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Renaissance Quarterly has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #730 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Renaissance Quarterly published 381 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 564. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (59.1%), United Kingdom (9.7%) and Italy (6.5%). 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.
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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