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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 0068-0346Verify ISSN ↗2214-7942Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 547 / 1186 | 53rd | Q2 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 185 / 254 | 27th | Q3 |
| Anthropology | 439 / 536 | 18th | Q4 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 651 / 744 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 2007–2020, 2005), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 547 of 1186), Q3 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 185 of 254) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 439 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 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 0.3, quartile Q2, 53rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0068-0346 and its online ISSN is 2214-7942.
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.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 102. 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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