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Plural. History. Culture. Society is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), DOAJ. Published by Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University.
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ISSN 2345-1262Verify ISSN ↗2345-184XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1124 / 1936 | 41st | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 983 / 1434 | 31st | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1348 / 1530 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Plural. History. Culture. Society is Q3 in History (rank 1124 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 983 of 1434) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1348 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Plural. History. Culture. Society 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, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.159, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
Plural. History. Culture. Society is published by Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University. Its print ISSN is 2345-1262 and its online ISSN is 2345-184X.
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.
Plural. History. Culture. Society has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #619 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Plural. History. Culture. Society published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 43. 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 65 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Romania (39.2%), Moldova (15.4%) and Ukraine (6.9%).
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.
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