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Ancient Asia is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by ARF India.
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ISSN 2042-5937Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ARF India
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 306 / 697 | 56th | Q2 |
| History | 997 / 1936 | 48th | Q3 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 304 / 462 | 34th | Q3 |
| Archeology | 271 / 388 | 30th | Q3 |
| Anthropology | 407 / 536 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Ancient Asia is Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 306 of 697), Q3 in History (rank 997 of 1936) and Q3 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 304 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Ancient Asia 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.134, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$367 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Ancient Asia is published by ARF India. Its ISSN is 2042-5937.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Ancient Asia has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #497 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Ancient Asia published 9 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 18. 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 30 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (70%), Pakistan (10%) and South Korea (5.7%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (15 per 1,000 papers). 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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