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Medieval Encounters is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1380-7854Verify ISSN ↗1570-0674Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 555 / 1936 | 71st | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 236 / 760 | 68th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 589 / 1434 | 58th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 497 / 1137 | 56th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 600 / 1221 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Medieval Encounters is Q2 in History (rank 555 of 1936), Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 236 of 760) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 589 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Medieval Encounters 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 0.148, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
Medieval Encounters is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1380-7854 and its online ISSN is 1570-0674.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medieval Encounters has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #835 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Medieval Encounters published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 61. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.9%), Israel (14.2%) and Spain (14.2%).
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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