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Al Abhath is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0002-3973Verify ISSN ↗2589-997XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 601 / 1186 | 49th | Q3 |
| History | 1242 / 1936 | 35th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 843 / 1137 | 25th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 945 / 1221 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Al Abhath is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 601 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 1242 of 1936) and Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 843 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Al Abhath is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.112, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 2.
Al Abhath is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0002-3973 and its online ISSN is 2589-997X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Al Abhath has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Al Abhath published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 34. 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.
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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