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West 86th is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0), WoS ESCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 2153-5531Verify ISSN ↗2153-5558Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 638 / 697 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
West 86th is Q4 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 638 of 697), by CiteScore 2025.
West 86th 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, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 8th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
West 86th is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 2153-5531 and its online ISSN is 2153-5558.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
West 86th has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #428 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
West 86th published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 50. 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 48 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (55.2%), United Kingdom (18.8%) and Germany (6.3%). 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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