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Ekphrasis is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Babes-Bolyai University.
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ISSN 2067-631XVerify ISSN ↗2559-2068Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Babes-Bolyai University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 388 / 697 | 44th | Q3 |
| Communication | 492 / 541 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Ekphrasis is Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 388 of 697) and Q4 in Communication (rank 492 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Ekphrasis 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.142, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
Ekphrasis is published by Babes-Bolyai University. Its print ISSN is 2067-631X and its online ISSN is 2559-2068.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ekphrasis has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #225 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Ekphrasis published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 33. 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 84 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Romania (32.7%), Sweden (13.7%) and United Kingdom (6%).
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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