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Yale French Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS AHCI. Published by Yale University Press.
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ISSN 0044-0078Verify ISSN ↗2325-8691Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Yale University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 719 / 1186 | 39th | Q3 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 446 / 697 | 36th | Q3 |
| History | 1402 / 1936 | 27th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1147 / 1434 | 20th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1424 / 1530 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present (also 2018–2019, 2002–2014), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Yale French Studies is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 719 of 1186), Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 446 of 697) and Q3 in History (rank 1402 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Yale French 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.207, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
Yale French Studies is published by Yale University Press. Its print ISSN is 0044-0078 and its online ISSN is 2325-8691.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Yale French Studies has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Yale French Studies published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2004 with 36. 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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