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Nomadic Peoples is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by White Horse Press.
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ISSN 0822-7942Verify ISSN ↗1752-2366Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: White Horse Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 178 / 536 | 66th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 367 / 744 | 50th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 760 / 1530 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1990–1994, 1985, 1982–1983), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Nomadic Peoples is Q2 in Anthropology (rank 178 of 536), Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 367 of 744) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 760 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Nomadic Peoples 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.237, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
Nomadic Peoples is published by White Horse Press. Its print ISSN is 0822-7942 and its online ISSN is 1752-2366.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nomadic Peoples has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #128 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Nomadic Peoples published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 30. 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 45 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Italy (17.8%), United Kingdom (15.2%) and United States (10.2%).
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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