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Open Library of Humanities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Open Library of Humanities.
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ISSN 2056-6700Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 44 / 175 | 75th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 385 / 1434 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 223 / 536 | 58th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 896 / 1530 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Open Library of Humanities is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 44 of 175), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 385 of 1434) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 223 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Open Library of Humanities 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.268, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
Open Library of Humanities is published by Open Library of Humanities. Its ISSN is 2056-6700.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Library of Humanities has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Open Library of Humanities published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 86. 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 84 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (20.8%), United States (16.1%) and Germany (14.3%).
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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