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Journal of Near Eastern Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0022-2968Verify ISSN ↗1545-6978Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 25 / 175 | 86th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 267 / 1434 | 81st | Q1 |
| Archeology | 73 / 388 | 81st | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 339 / 1221 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1992–1994, 1982–1988, 1980, 1974, 1968), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 25 of 175), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 267 of 1434) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 73 of 388), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.436, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0022-2968 and its online ISSN is 1545-6978.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies has an h-index of 67 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Journal of Near Eastern Studies published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 55. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (47.4%), Israel (11.6%) and Germany (6.3%).
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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