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Fornvannen is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. Published by Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0015-7813Verify ISSN ↗1404-9430Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 949 / 1936 | 50th | Q2 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 293 / 462 | 36th | Q3 |
| Archeology | 266 / 388 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present (also 1978), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Fornvannen is Q2 in History (rank 949 of 1936), Q3 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 293 of 462) and Q3 in Archeology (rank 266 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
Fornvannen 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.292, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 8.
Fornvannen is published by Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Its print ISSN is 0015-7813 and its online ISSN is 1404-9430.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Fornvannen has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #307 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Fornvannen published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 34. 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 28 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (67.9%), Norway (10.7%) and Poland (7.1%). 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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