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Old Testament Essays is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by Old Testament Society of South Africa.
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ISSN 1010-9919Verify ISSN ↗2312-3621Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Old Testament Society of South Africa
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 612 / 1936 | 68th | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 261 / 760 | 65th | Q2 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 208 / 462 | 54th | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 537 / 1137 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Archeology | 197 / 388 | 49th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 644 / 1221 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Old Testament Essays is Q2 in History (rank 612 of 1936), Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 261 of 760) and Q2 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 208 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Old Testament Essays 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 0.6, quartile Q2, 68th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$271 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.
Old Testament Essays is published by Old Testament Society of South Africa. Its print ISSN is 1010-9919 and its online ISSN is 2312-3621.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Old Testament Essays has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #453 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Old Testament Essays published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 54. 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 92 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from South Africa (61.8%), United States (6%) and Nigeria (4.3%). 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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