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East Central Europe is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0094-3037Verify ISSN ↗1876-3308Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 728 / 1936 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 729 / 1434 | 49th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1201 / 1530 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 1999–2006, 1992–1993, 1989–1990, 1985–1987, 1975–1983), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
East Central Europe is Q2 in History (rank 728 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 729 of 1434) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1201 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
East Central Europe 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
East Central Europe is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0094-3037 and its online ISSN is 1876-3308.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
East Central Europe has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #808 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
East Central Europe published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 25. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Romania (14.4%), Hungary (11.4%) and Austria (11.2%).
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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