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Papers of the British School at Rome is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0068-2462Verify ISSN ↗2045-239XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 152 / 697 | 78th | Q1 |
| History | 478 / 1936 | 75th | Q1 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 164 / 462 | 64th | Q2 |
| Archeology | 154 / 388 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1948–2025 (also 1938–1939, 1935, 1932, 1929, 1927, 1920, 1916–1917, 1913–1914, 1910, 1906–1907, 1904, 1902), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Papers of the British School at Rome is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 152 of 697), Q1 in History (rank 478 of 1936) and Q2 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 164 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Papers of the British School at Rome 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.168, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Papers of the British School at Rome is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0068-2462 and its online ISSN is 2045-239X.
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.
Papers of the British School at Rome has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #194 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Papers of the British School at Rome published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 42. 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 72 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (46.6%), Italy (22.5%) and Australia (13.9%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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