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Empedocles is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 1757-1952Verify ISSN ↗1757-1960Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 363 / 891 | 59th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 537 / 1137 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 644 / 1221 | 47th | Q3 |
| Communication | 416 / 541 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Empedocles is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 363 of 891), Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 537 of 1137) and Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 644 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Empedocles 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 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.161, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 3.
Empedocles is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1757-1952 and its online ISSN is 1757-1960.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Empedocles has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #656 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Empedocles published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 17. 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 43 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (18.6%), United Kingdom (14%) and China (7%).
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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