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Ancient Society is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Peeters Publishers.
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ISSN 0066-1619Verify ISSN ↗1783-1334Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 72 / 196 | 63rd | Q2 |
| History | 884 / 1936 | 54th | Q2 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 278 / 462 | 39th | Q3 |
| Archeology | 253 / 388 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–2025 (also 2011–2013), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Ancient Society is Q2 in Classics (rank 72 of 196), Q2 in History (rank 884 of 1936) and Q3 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 278 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Ancient Society 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 0.4, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.130, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
Ancient Society is published by Peeters Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0066-1619 and its online ISSN is 1783-1334.
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 Society has an h-index of 39 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 #102 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
Ancient Society published 31 papers in 2022. 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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