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Centaurus is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1), WoS AHCI/SCIE/SSCI. Published by Brepols Publishers.
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ISSN 0008-8994Verify ISSN ↗1600-0498Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Cost to publish: About US$2,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 45 / 254 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–2025 (also 2006–2007, 2001–2002, 1998, 1984–1994, 1971–1982, 1963–1969, 1950–1961), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
Centaurus is Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 45 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
Centaurus is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.239, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Centaurus is published by Brepols Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0008-8994 and its online ISSN is 1600-0498.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Centaurus has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #156 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Centaurus published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 112. 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 98 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (18.9%), United States (10.7%) and Italy (9.2%).
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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