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World Literature Today is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Oklahoma.
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ISSN 0196-3570Verify ISSN ↗1945-8134Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 1104 / 1186 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
World Literature Today is Q4 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 1104 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
World Literature Today 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, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 6th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
World Literature Today is published by University of Oklahoma. Its print ISSN is 0196-3570 and its online ISSN is 1945-8134.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Literature Today has an h-index of 140 and a 2-year mean of 0.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #787 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
World Literature Today published 327 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 735. 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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