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Brussels Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universite Saint-Louis Bruxelles.
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ISSN 2031-0293Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universite Saint-Louis Bruxelles
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 1180 / 1434 | 17th | Q4 |
| Urban Studies | 275 / 295 | 6th | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 839 / 876 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Brussels Studies is Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1180 of 1434), Q4 in Urban Studies (rank 275 of 295) and Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 839 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Brussels Studies 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 Q4 at the 17th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Brussels Studies is published by Universite Saint-Louis Bruxelles. Its ISSN is 2031-0293.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Brussels Studies has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #595 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Brussels Studies published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 70. 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 39 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Belgium (96.2%), United States (2.6%) and Netherlands (1.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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