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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.3), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Blackwell Munksgaard.
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ISSN 0905-7196Verify ISSN ↗1600-0471Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Blackwell Munksgaard
Cost to publish: About US$2,820 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 12 / 175 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Archeology | 48 / 388 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.3.
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 12 of 175) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 48 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.604, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,820 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.
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy is published by Blackwell Munksgaard. Its print ISSN is 0905-7196 and its online ISSN is 1600-0471.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 35. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from France (16.3%), Poland (8.9%) and United Kingdom (8.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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