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Ancient Philosophy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Philosophy Documentation Center.
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ISSN 0740-2007Verify ISSN ↗2154-4689Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 28 / 196 | 85th | Q1 |
| Philosophy | 300 / 891 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1980), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Ancient Philosophy is Q1 in Classics (rank 28 of 196) and Q2 in Philosophy (rank 300 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Ancient Philosophy 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 0.8, quartile Q1, 85th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.245, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
Ancient Philosophy is published by Philosophy Documentation Center. Its print ISSN is 0740-2007 and its online ISSN is 2154-4689.
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.
Ancient Philosophy has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #43 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
Ancient Philosophy published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 63. 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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