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Monumenta Nipponica is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sophia University.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0027-0741Verify ISSN ↗1880-1390Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sophia University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1581 / 1936 | 18th | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1238 / 1434 | 13th | Q4 |
| Anthropology | 499 / 536 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–2025 (also 1979), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Monumenta Nipponica is Q4 in History (rank 1581 of 1936), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1238 of 1434) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 499 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Monumenta Nipponica is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 18th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.104, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
Monumenta Nipponica is published by Sophia University. Its print ISSN is 0027-0741 and its online ISSN is 1880-1390.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Monumenta Nipponica has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 0.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,389 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Monumenta Nipponica published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 69. 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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