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Topics in Humor Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2212-8999Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 170 / 1186 | 85th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 579 / 1434 | 59th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 490 / 1137 | 56th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 589 / 1221 | 51st | Q2 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 98 / 118 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024 (also 2022, 2019–2020), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
Topics in Humor Research is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 170 of 1186), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 579 of 1434) and Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 490 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Topics in Humor Research 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 0.7, quartile Q1, 85th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Topics in Humor Research is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 2212-8999.
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.
Topics in Humor Research has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Topics in Humor Research published 16 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 44. 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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