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Hiperboreea is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Penn State University Press.
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ISSN 2284-5666Verify ISSN ↗2688-8211Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 731 / 1936 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 733 / 1434 | 48th | Q3 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 239 / 462 | 48th | Q3 |
| Archeology | 224 / 388 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Hiperboreea is Q2 in History (rank 731 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 733 of 1434) and Q3 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 239 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Hiperboreea is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.137, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
Hiperboreea is published by Penn State University Press. Its print ISSN is 2284-5666 and its online ISSN is 2688-8211.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hiperboreea has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,214 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Hiperboreea published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 72. 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 29 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Bulgaria (17.2%), Romania (13.8%) and Greece (13.8%).
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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