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Journal of Baltic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0162-9778Verify ISSN ↗1751-7877Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 246 / 1434 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 196 / 692 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1972–2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
Journal of Baltic Studies is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 246 of 1434) and Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 196 of 692), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Baltic Studies is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.360, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
Journal of Baltic Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0162-9778 and its online ISSN is 1751-7877.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Baltic Studies has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #408 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Baltic Studies published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 69. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Estonia (22.5%), Latvia (19.8%) and Lithuania (16.5%).
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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