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Modern Italy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1353-2944Verify ISSN ↗1469-9877Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 336 / 1936 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 399 / 1434 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 238 / 536 | 55th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 915 / 1530 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1997–2000, 1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Modern Italy is Q1 in History (rank 336 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 399 of 1434) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 238 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Modern Italy is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.357, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Modern Italy is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1353-2944 and its online ISSN is 1469-9877.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Modern Italy has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #518 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Modern Italy published 79 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 82. 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 76 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Italy (58.1%), United Kingdom (16.2%) and United States (9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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