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Louvain Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Peeters Publishers.
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ISSN 0024-6964Verify ISSN ↗1783-161XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 506 / 760 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Philosophy | 615 / 891 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–2024 (also 1987–1988, 1977), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Louvain Studies is Q3 in Religious Studies (rank 506 of 760) and Q3 in Philosophy (rank 615 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Louvain Studies 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
Louvain Studies is published by Peeters Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0024-6964 and its online ISSN is 1783-161X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Louvain Studies has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #536 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Louvain Studies published 2 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 5. 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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