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Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1019-3316Verify ISSN ↗1555-6492Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 455 / 1434 | 68th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 485 / 745 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 455 of 1434) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 485 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.190, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1019-3316 and its online ISSN is 1555-6492.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #852 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences published 221 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 263. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (93.9%), Kazakhstan (2%) and Serbia (1.5%). 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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