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Balkanistic Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. Published by International University Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specializations, South West University Neofit Rilski - Blagoevgrad.
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ISSN 1310-3970Verify ISSN ↗2535-1265Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International University Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specializations, South West University Neofit Rilski - Blagoevgrad
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 726 / 1186 | 38th | Q3 |
| History | 1409 / 1936 | 27th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1153 / 1434 | 19th | Q4 |
| Language and Linguistics | 918 / 1137 | 19th | Q4 |
| Linguistics and Language | 1023 / 1221 | 16th | Q4 |
| Anthropology | 474 / 536 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Balkanistic Forum is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 726 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 1409 of 1936) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1153 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Balkanistic Forum is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.124, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 3.
Balkanistic Forum is published by International University Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specializations, South West University Neofit Rilski - Blagoevgrad. Its print ISSN is 1310-3970 and its online ISSN is 2535-1265.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Balkanistic Forum has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #636 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Balkanistic Forum published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 93. 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 18 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Bulgaria (30.6%), Serbia (22.2%) and Greece (13.9%).
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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