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Babesch is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Peeters Publishers.
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ISSN 0165-9367Verify ISSN ↗1783-1369Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 87 / 196 | 55th | Q2 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 301 / 462 | 34th | Q3 |
| Archeology | 268 / 388 | 30th | 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 2020–2025 (also 2011–2018), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Babesch is Q2 in Classics (rank 87 of 196), Q3 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 301 of 462) and Q3 in Archeology (rank 268 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Babesch 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, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.162, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 9.
Babesch is published by Peeters Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0165-9367 and its online ISSN is 1783-1369.
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.
Babesch has an h-index of 15 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.
Babesch published 5 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 12. 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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