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Israel Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Indiana University Press.
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ISSN 1084-9513Verify ISSN ↗1527-201XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 225 / 1936 | 88th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 334 / 1434 | 76th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 203 / 536 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 396 / 745 | 46th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 822 / 1530 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present (also 2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Israel Studies is Q1 in History (rank 225 of 1936), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 334 of 1434) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 203 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Israel 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.224, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
Israel Studies is published by Indiana University Press. Its print ISSN is 1084-9513 and its online ISSN is 1527-201X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Israel Studies has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #216 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Israel Studies published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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.
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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