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Shakespeare Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0748-2558Verify ISSN ↗1931-1427Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 87 / 1186 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 99 / 697 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Shakespeare Bulletin is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 87 of 1186) and Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 99 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
Shakespeare Bulletin 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, quartile Q1, 92nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Shakespeare Bulletin is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0748-2558 and its online ISSN is 1931-1427.
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.
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.
Shakespeare Bulletin has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #730 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Shakespeare Bulletin published 66 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 77. 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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