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Arabica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0570-5398Verify ISSN ↗1570-0585Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 204 / 1186 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 258 / 760 | 66th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 630 / 1434 | 56th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 527 / 1137 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1983–1993, 1954–1981), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
Arabica is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 204 of 1186), Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 258 of 760) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 630 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Arabica 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.135, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
Arabica is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0570-5398 and its online ISSN is 1570-0585.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Arabica has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #636 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Arabica published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 44. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from France (49.8%), United States (8.9%) and United Kingdom (5%).
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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