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Word and Image is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0266-6286Verify ISSN ↗1943-2178Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 431 / 1186 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 308 / 697 | 55th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 735 / 1137 | 35th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 847 / 1221 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Word and Image is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 431 of 1186), Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 308 of 697) and Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 735 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Word and Image 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 0.105, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
Word and Image is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0266-6286 and its online ISSN is 1943-2178.
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.
Word and Image has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Word and Image published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 33. 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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