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SARE is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Malaya.
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ISSN 0127-046XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Malaya
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 315 / 1186 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 770 / 1434 | 46th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 633 / 1137 | 44th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 745 / 1221 | 39th | Q3 |
| Communication | 443 / 541 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
SARE is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 315 of 1186), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 770 of 1434) and Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 633 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
SARE 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.154, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 4.
SARE is published by University of Malaya. Its ISSN is 0127-046X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
SARE has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #233 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
SARE published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 60. 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 83 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from India (36.1%), Malaysia (27.1%) and United Kingdom (5.4%).
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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