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Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 2043-0701Verify ISSN ↗2043-071XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 460 / 1186 | 61st | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 420 / 692 | 39th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 929 / 1434 | 35th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 758 / 1137 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 460 of 1186), Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 420 of 692) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 929 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 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 0.3, quartile Q2, 61st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 2.
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2043-0701 and its online ISSN is 2043-071X.
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.
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #787 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 26. 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 85 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (48.2%), France (12.9%) and India (5.9%).
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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