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Victorian Literature and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1060-1503Verify ISSN ↗1470-1553Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 281 / 1186 | 76th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 741 / 1434 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
Victorian Literature and Culture is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 281 of 1186) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 741 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Victorian Literature and Culture 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.115, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Victorian Literature and Culture is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1060-1503 and its online ISSN is 1470-1553.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Victorian Literature and Culture has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Victorian Literature and Culture published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 168. 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 77 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (62.3%), United Kingdom (16.9%) and India (7.8%). 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. 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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