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Hesperia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.4), WoS AHCI. Published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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ISSN 0018-098XVerify ISSN ↗1553-5622Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 5 / 196 | 97th | Q1 |
| History | 194 / 1936 | 89th | Q1 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 87 / 462 | 81st | Q1 |
| Archeology | 82 / 388 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.4.
Hesperia is Q1 in Classics (rank 5 of 196), Q1 in History (rank 194 of 1936) and Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 87 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Hesperia 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.252, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
Hesperia is published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Its print ISSN is 0018-098X and its online ISSN is 1553-5622.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hesperia has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
Hesperia published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 23. 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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