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Dead Sea Discoveries is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0929-0761Verify ISSN ↗1568-5179Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 393 / 1936 | 79th | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 159 / 760 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
Dead Sea Discoveries is Q1 in History (rank 393 of 1936) and Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 159 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Dead Sea Discoveries 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.148, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Dead Sea Discoveries is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0929-0761 and its online ISSN is 1568-5179.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Dead Sea Discoveries has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #384 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Dead Sea Discoveries published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 40. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.9%), Israel (15.3%) and United Kingdom (9.5%).
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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