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Acta Borealia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.2), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0800-3831Verify ISSN ↗1503-111XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 91 / 1936 | 95th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 175 / 1434 | 87th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 113 / 536 | 79th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 563 / 1530 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1984–1994), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.2.
Acta Borealia is Q1 in History (rank 91 of 1936), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 175 of 1434) and Q1 in Anthropology (rank 113 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Acta Borealia 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
Acta Borealia is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0800-3831 and its online ISSN is 1503-111X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Borealia has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 3.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Acta Borealia published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 13. 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.
In its latest 43 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Norway (45.3%), Finland (19.8%) and Denmark (11.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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