MELUS

Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States · United States · Est. 1974

ISSN1946-3170

SJR Q1✓ 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 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.156

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.615

Total Worksi

3,143

Total Citationsi

18,980

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.04

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

MELUS is the official journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. It publishes papers in the field of multi-ethnic literature of the United States, covering national, international, and transnational contexts.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1974

Annual Volume~ 53 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications3,143

Publisher OrgOxford University Press

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1946-3170

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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

121

2019

110

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

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 TheoryQ1

Cultural StudiesQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Literature, American

Scopus Categories

Cultural StudiesLiterature and Literary Theory

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Latin American and Latino StudiesRace, History, and American SocietyAsian American and Pacific HistoriesPoetry Analysis and CriticismAmerican and British Literature AnalysisPostcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesJewish and Middle Eastern StudiesThemes in Literature Analysis

Frequently asked questions about MELUS

Is MELUS a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for MELUS: 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 MELUS?

MELUS 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 0.04.

Is MELUS indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

MELUS is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.