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Cambridge Quarterly

Oxford University Press · United Kingdom · Est. 1965

ISSN1471-6836

SJR Q2✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (AHCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.117

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.313

Total Worksi

2,054

Total Citationsi

2,989

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.05

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary criticism which also publishes articles on cinema, the visual arts, and music. It publishes research related to Arts and Humanities and aims to engage readers outside as well as inside the academic profession.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1965

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications2,054

Publisher OrgOxford University Press

Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind 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

7/11 · 64%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Oxford University Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1471-6836

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind peer review

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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

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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 TheoryQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Literary Theory & CriticismLiterature

Scopus Categories

Literature and Literary Theory

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Poetry Analysis and CriticismIrish and British StudiesShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary CriticismModernist Literature and CriticismContemporary Literature and CriticismLiterature: history, themes, analysisPolitical and Economic history of UK and USScottish History and National IdentityLegal case studies and regulationsSamuel Beckett and Modernism

Frequently asked questions about Cambridge Quarterly

Is Cambridge Quarterly a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Cambridge Quarterly: 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 Cambridge Quarterly?

Cambridge Quarterly 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 0.05.

Is Cambridge Quarterly indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Cambridge Quarterly is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.