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Asian Ethnology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2), WoS AHCI. Published by Nanzan University.
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ISSN 1882-6865Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nanzan University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 71 / 1186 | 94th | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 77 / 697 | 89th | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 118 / 760 | 84th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 359 / 1434 | 75th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 214 / 536 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Asian Ethnology is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 71 of 1186), Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 77 of 697) and Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 118 of 760), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Asian Ethnology 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.170, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 20.
Asian Ethnology is published by Nanzan University. Its ISSN is 1882-6865.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Asian Ethnology has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Asian Ethnology published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 45. 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 15 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.7%), Australia (6.7%) and India (6.7%).
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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