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Explorations in Renaissance Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0098-2474Verify ISSN ↗2352-6963Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 884 / 1186 | 25th | Q3 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 542 / 697 | 22nd | Q4 |
| History | 1627 / 1936 | 15th | Q4 |
| Music | 168 / 196 | 14th | Q4 |
| Philosophy | 781 / 891 | 12th | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1257 / 1434 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2027 (also 1996–2025, 1976), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.1.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture is Q3 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 884 of 1186), Q4 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 542 of 697) and Q4 in History (rank 1627 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.148, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0098-2474 and its online ISSN is 2352-6963.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #869 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 14. 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 41 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (78%), United Kingdom (9.8%) and Italy (4.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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