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Journal of Scottish Philosophy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Edinburgh University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1479-6651Verify ISSN ↗1755-2001Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 547 / 1936 | 71st | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 336 / 891 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 580 / 1434 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Scottish Philosophy is Q2 in History (rank 547 of 1936), Q2 in Philosophy (rank 336 of 891) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 580 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Scottish Philosophy 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.180, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
Journal of Scottish Philosophy is published by Edinburgh University Press. Its print ISSN is 1479-6651 and its online ISSN is 1755-2001.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Scottish Philosophy has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #745 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Scottish Philosophy published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 38. 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 78 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (43.6%), United Kingdom (16%) and Japan (6.4%).
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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