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Northern Lights is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Intellect Ltd..
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ISSN 1601-829XVerify ISSN ↗2040-0586Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Intellect Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 379 / 697 | 45th | Q3 |
| Communication | 488 / 541 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2025 (also 2012–2014), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Northern Lights is Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 379 of 697) and Q4 in Communication (rank 488 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Northern Lights is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.111, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Northern Lights is published by Intellect Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1601-829X and its online ISSN is 2040-0586.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Northern Lights has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #194 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Northern Lights published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 10. 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 29 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (21.8%), Croatia (18.4%) and Spain (15.5%).
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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