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Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Sciendo.
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ISSN 1736-6518Verify ISSN ↗2228-0987Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sciendo
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 404 / 1434 | 71st | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 239 / 536 | 55th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 203 / 283 | 28th | Q3 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 176 / 235 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 404 of 1434), Q2 in Anthropology (rank 239 of 536) and Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 203 of 283), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics is published by Sciendo. Its print ISSN is 1736-6518 and its online ISSN is 2228-0987.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #515 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 29. 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 Estonia (25%), Russia (13%) and United States (11.5%).
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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