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Afghanistan is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2399-357XVerify ISSN ↗2399-3588Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 162 / 1186 | 86th | Q1 |
| Classics | 33 / 196 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 162 / 697 | 76th | Q1 |
| History | 532 / 1936 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 227 / 760 | 70th | Q2 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 176 / 462 | 61st | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 297 / 536 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
Afghanistan is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 162 of 1186), Q1 in Classics (rank 33 of 196) and Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 162 of 697), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Afghanistan is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.179, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 6.
Afghanistan is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 2399-357X and its online ISSN is 2399-3588.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Afghanistan has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #295 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Afghanistan published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 27. 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 13 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (53.8%), United Kingdom (30.8%) and Australia (7.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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