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Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Mehmet HACISALİHOĞLU.
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ISSN 2667-470XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mehmet HACISALİHOĞLU
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 139 / 175 | 20th | Q4 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 263 / 286 | 8th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 737 / 755 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies is Q4 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 139 of 175), Q4 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 263 of 286) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 737 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Balkan and Black Sea 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 Q4, 20th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies is published by Mehmet HACISALİHOĞLU. Its ISSN is 2667-470X.
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.
Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 12. 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 37 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (45.9%), United States (12.2%) and Bosnia & Herzegovina (8.1%).
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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