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Speculum is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0038-7134Verify ISSN ↗2040-8072Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 43 / 1186 | 96th | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 54 / 697 | 92nd | Q1 |
| History | 169 / 1936 | 91st | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 93 / 760 | 87th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 274 / 1434 | 80th | Q1 |
| Philosophy | 191 / 891 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1998–1999, 1926–1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Speculum is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 43 of 1186), Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 54 of 697) and Q1 in History (rank 169 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Speculum 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.257, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
Speculum is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0038-7134 and its online ISSN is 2040-8072.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Speculum has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #636 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Speculum published 334 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 626. 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 84 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (51.2%), United Kingdom (16.1%) and Norway (4.8%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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