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Massachusetts Review

Massachusetts Review, Inc · United States

ISSN0025-4878eISSN2330-0485

SJR Q3✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.105

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

1,520

Total Citationsi

359

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.03

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

The Massachusetts Review is a literary magazine that showcases poetry, fiction, and essays. It emphasizes a diverse range of voices and genres, reflecting contemporary societal issues and personal narratives, and aims to foster a dialogue between literature and the pressing concerns of the modern world. The journal also presents critical reviews that engage with contemporary culture.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 127 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications1,520

Publisher OrgAmherst College

Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Massachusetts Review, Inc

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

0025-4878 / 2330-0485

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

132

2019

127

2020

177

2021

124

2022

117

2023

139

2024

126

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Literature and Literary TheoryQ3

Visual Arts and Performing ArtsQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Literary Reviews

Scopus Categories

Literature and Literary TheoryVisual Arts and Performing Arts

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Educational Reforms and InnovationsPoetry Analysis and CriticismEducational Leadership and PracticesHuman auditory perception and evaluationLegal Cases and CommentaryDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesLatin American and Latino StudiesRace, History, and American SocietyAmerican Literature and CultureFinancial Crisis of the 21st Century

Frequently asked questions about Massachusetts Review

Is Massachusetts Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Massachusetts Review: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Massachusetts Review?

Massachusetts Review is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.03.

Is Massachusetts Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Massachusetts Review is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.