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World Literature Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. Published by Slovak academy of Sciences, Institute of World literature.
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ISSN 1337-9275Verify ISSN ↗1337-9690Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Slovak academy of Sciences, Institute of World literature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 293 / 1186 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
World Literature Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 293 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
World Literature Studies 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 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.301, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
World Literature Studies is published by Slovak academy of Sciences, Institute of World literature. Its print ISSN is 1337-9275 and its online ISSN is 1337-9690.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Literature Studies has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #591 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
World Literature Studies published 60 papers in 2025. 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 51 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Slovakia (28.4%), Czechia (15.7%) and United States (8.8%).
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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