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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0041-977XVerify ISSN ↗1474-0699Verify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 511 / 1936 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 548 / 1434 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1948–present (also 1942–1946, 1920–1940, 1917–1918), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies is Q2 in History (rank 511 of 1936) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 548 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.239, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
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 the School of Oriental and African Studies is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0041-977X and its online ISSN is 1474-0699.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 0.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #719 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 138. 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 83 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (19%), China (15.1%) and Germany (13.3%).
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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