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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI, DOAJ. Published by Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association.
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ISSN 0041-476XVerify ISSN ↗2309-9070Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 438 / 1186 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 910 / 1434 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 438 of 1186) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 910 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$543 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is published by Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association. Its print ISSN is 0041-476X and its online ISSN is 2309-9070.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #318 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 203. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (65.3%), Poland (11.6%) and Nigeria (5.3%). 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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