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Hobbes Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0921-5891Verify ISSN ↗1875-0257Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 493 / 1936 | 74th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 313 / 891 | 64th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1045 / 1530 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994, 1992, 1989–1990), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Hobbes Studies is Q2 in History (rank 493 of 1936), Q2 in Philosophy (rank 313 of 891) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1045 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Hobbes Studies 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.114, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Hobbes Studies is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0921-5891 and its online ISSN is 1875-0257.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hobbes Studies has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #906 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Hobbes Studies published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 22. 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 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (44.8%), United Kingdom (21.3%) and France (9.2%).
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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