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Franciscan Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Saint Bonaventure University.
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ISSN 0080-5459Verify ISSN ↗1945-9718Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Saint Bonaventure University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1517 / 1936 | 21st | Q4 |
| Religious Studies | 618 / 760 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2025 (also 2011–2012), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Franciscan Studies is Q4 in History (rank 1517 of 1936) and Q4 in Religious Studies (rank 618 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Franciscan Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4, 21st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Franciscan Studies is published by Saint Bonaventure University. Its print ISSN is 0080-5459 and its online ISSN is 1945-9718.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Franciscan Studies has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Franciscan Studies published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 26. 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.
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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