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Acta Orientalia is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. Published by Akademiai Kiado ZRt..
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ISSN 0001-6446Verify ISSN ↗1588-2667Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado ZRt.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 409 / 1186 | 65th | Q2 |
| History | 973 / 1936 | 49th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 888 / 1434 | 38th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 713 / 1137 | 37th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 824 / 1221 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Acta Orientalia is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 409 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 973 of 1936) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 888 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Acta Orientalia 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.148, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Acta Orientalia is published by Akademiai Kiado ZRt. Its print ISSN is 0001-6446 and its online ISSN is 1588-2667.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Orientalia has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #407 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Acta Orientalia published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 41. 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 90 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (18.9%), Hungary (14.4%) and Germany (10.6%).
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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