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British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1353-0194Verify ISSN ↗1469-3542Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 118 / 1936 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 448 / 876 | 48th | Q3 |
| Earth-Surface Processes | 96 / 184 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies is Q1 in History (rank 118 of 1936), Q3 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 448 of 876) and Q3 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 96 of 184), by CiteScore 2025.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.345, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 35.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1353-0194 and its online ISSN is 1469-3542.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #223 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies published 80 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 99. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (12.2%), Türkiye (11.1%) and Israel (10.5%).
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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