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Literature, Critique, and Empire Today

SAGE Publications Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2021

ISSN3033-3962eISSN3033-3970
SJR Q2WOS A&HCIScopus / 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.
Q2
SJR · Scopus
Top 50% in field
Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ
SJR Scorei
0.138
H-Indexi
3
SNIPi
0.543
Total Worksi
104
Total Citationsi
44
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.16
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Literature, African, Australian, Canadian; Literature and Literary Theory.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published2021
Annual Volume~ 26 articles / year
StatusActive (last: 2026)
Total Publications104
Publisher OrgÉditions F. Alcan
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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

6/11 · 55%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
SAGE Publications Ltd
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
3033-3962 / 3033-3970
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus
Peer review process documented?
N/A
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
N/A
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
N/A
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
1
3
2021
9
22
2022
9
9
2023
32
16
2024
36
3
2025
33
1
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 TheoryQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Literature, African, Australian, Canadian

Scopus Categories

Literature and Literary Theory

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Postcolonial and Cultural Literary StudiesSouth African History and CultureAustralian History and SocietyCommonwealth, Australian Politics and FederalismAnthropological Studies and InsightsSocioeconomic Development in AsiaUtopian, Dystopian, and Speculative FictionSouth Asian Cinema and CultureDiaspora, migration, transnational identityEcocriticism and Environmental Literature

Frequently asked questions about Literature, Critique, and Empire Today

Is Literature, Critique, and Empire Today a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Literature, Critique, and Empire Today: 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 Literature, Critique, and Empire Today?

Literature, Critique, and Empire Today 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 0.16.

Is Literature, Critique, and Empire Today indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Literature, Critique, and Empire Today is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Literature, Critique, and Empire Today?

Subject areas: Literature, African, Australian, Canadian; Literature and Literary Theory.

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref