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Iran and the Caucasus is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1573-384XVerify ISSN ↗1609-8498Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1000 / 1936 | 48th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 903 / 1434 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–1998 (also 2001–present), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Iran and the Caucasus is Q3 in History (rank 1000 of 1936) and Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 903 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Iran and the Caucasus 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.224, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
Iran and the Caucasus is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1573-384X and its online ISSN is 1609-8498.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Iran and the Caucasus has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #772 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Iran and the Caucasus published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 44. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Armenia (25.8%), Russia (11.6%) and Italy (7.9%).
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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