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International Journal of the Classical Tradition is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Transaction Periodicals Consortium.
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ISSN 1073-0508Verify ISSN ↗1874-6292Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Transaction Periodicals Consortium
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 43 / 196 | 78th | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 67 / 175 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 650 / 1434 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–1995 (also 2009–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
International Journal of the Classical Tradition is Q1 in Classics (rank 43 of 196), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 67 of 175) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 650 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of the Classical Tradition 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
International Journal of the Classical Tradition is published by Transaction Periodicals Consortium. Its print ISSN is 1073-0508 and its online ISSN is 1874-6292.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of the Classical Tradition has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
International Journal of the Classical Tradition published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 53. 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 96 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.6%), United Kingdom (19.8%) and Spain (10.9%).
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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