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Classical World is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 0009-8418Verify ISSN ↗1558-9234Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 78 / 196 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1977, 1972), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Classical World is Q2 in Classics (rank 78 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Classical World 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.132, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
Classical World is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0009-8418 and its online ISSN is 1558-9234.
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.
Classical World has an h-index of 200 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
Classical World published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 102. 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.
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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