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Folklore (United Kingdom) 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 Routledge.
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ISSN 0015-587XVerify ISSN ↗1469-8315Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 556 / 1936 | 71st | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 590 / 1434 | 58th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 303 / 536 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1890–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Folklore (United Kingdom) is Q2 in History (rank 556 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 590 of 1434) and Q3 in Anthropology (rank 303 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Folklore (United Kingdom) 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 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.244, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
Folklore (United Kingdom) is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0015-587X and its online ISSN is 1469-8315.
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.
Folklore (United Kingdom) has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #553 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Folklore (United Kingdom) published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 83. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (73.2%), United States (7.3%) and Canada (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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