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Illinois Classical Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Illinois Press.
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ISSN 0363-1923Verify ISSN ↗2328-5265Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 128 / 196 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025 (also 1987, 1982, 1978, 1976), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Illinois Classical Studies is Q3 in Classics (rank 128 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Illinois Classical 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 Q3, 33rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Illinois Classical Studies is published by University of Illinois Press. Its print ISSN is 0363-1923 and its online ISSN is 2328-5265.
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.
Illinois Classical Studies has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
Illinois Classical Studies published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 34. 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 64 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (46.9%), Italy (14.1%) and Greece (7.8%).
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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