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Polis (United Kingdom) is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0142-257XVerify ISSN ↗2051-2996Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 32 / 196 | 83rd | Q1 |
| History | 521 / 1936 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 322 / 891 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1063 / 1530 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
Polis (United Kingdom) is Q1 in Classics (rank 32 of 196), Q2 in History (rank 521 of 1936) and Q2 in Philosophy (rank 322 of 891), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Polis (United Kingdom) 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.125, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Polis (United Kingdom) is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0142-257X and its online ISSN is 2051-2996.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Polis (United Kingdom) has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
Polis (United Kingdom) published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 56. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (54.1%), United Kingdom (19.3%) and Italy (2.6%). 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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