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Ancient Near Eastern Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Peeters Publishers.
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ISSN 1378-4641Verify ISSN ↗1783-1326Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 250 / 1186 | 78th | Q1 |
| Classics | 51 / 196 | 74th | Q2 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 209 / 697 | 70th | Q2 |
| History | 692 / 1936 | 64th | Q2 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 225 / 462 | 51st | Q2 |
| Archeology | 214 / 388 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 250 of 1186), Q2 in Classics (rank 51 of 196) and Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 209 of 697), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.160, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 10.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies is published by Peeters Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1378-4641 and its online ISSN is 1783-1326.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies published 4 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 4. 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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