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Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1387-6678Verify ISSN ↗2215-0323Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 128 / 1936 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Philosophy | 151 / 891 | 83rd | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 50 / 254 | 80th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 311 / 744 | 58th | Q2 |
| Development | 188 / 314 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2025 (also 2019, 2017, 2009–2015, 2005–2006), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy is Q1 in History (rank 128 of 1936), Q1 in Philosophy (rank 151 of 891) and Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 50 of 254), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 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 1.8, quartile Q1, 93rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1387-6678 and its online ISSN is 2215-0323.
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.
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #639 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 57. 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.
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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