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Text Matters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Lodz University Press.
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ISSN 2083-2931Verify ISSN ↗2084-574XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lodz University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 496 / 1186 | 58th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 957 / 1434 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Text Matters is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 496 of 1186) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 957 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Text Matters 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Text Matters is published by Lodz University Press. Its print ISSN is 2083-2931 and its online ISSN is 2084-574X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Text Matters has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #278 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Text Matters published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 31. 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 92 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from Poland (53.3%), United States (7.1%) and Switzerland (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.
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