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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1079-8986Verify ISSN ↗1943-5894Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 214 / 891 | 76th | Q1 |
| Logic | 24 / 46 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 214 of 891) and Q3 in Logic (rank 24 of 46), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.468, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1079-8986 and its online ISSN is 1943-5894.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 0.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #322 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 88. 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 44 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.1%), Germany (12.9%) and Czechia (8%).
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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