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Folk Life is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0430-8778Verify ISSN ↗1759-670XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 607 / 1434 | 57th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 325 / 692 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 312 / 536 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1963–1995), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Folk Life is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 607 of 1434), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 325 of 692) and Q3 in Anthropology (rank 312 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Folk Life 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.161, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Folk Life is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0430-8778 and its online ISSN is 1759-670X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Folk Life has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #463 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Folk Life published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 24. 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 70 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Ireland (37.1%), United Kingdom (35.7%) and Türkiye (3.6%).
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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