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Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Bologna.
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ISSN 1973-9494Verify ISSN ↗1974-4951Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Bologna
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museology | 33 / 96 | 66th | Q2 |
| Conservation | 50 / 108 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage is Q2 in Museology (rank 33 of 96) and Q2 in Conservation (rank 50 of 108), by CiteScore 2025.
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.185, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$336 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.
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage is published by University of Bologna. Its print ISSN is 1973-9494 and its online ISSN is 1974-4951.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 86 Scopus journals in Museology.
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage published 1 papers in 2012; its busiest recent year was 2008 with 1. 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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