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Potestas is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universitat Jaume I.
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ISSN 1888-9867Verify ISSN ↗2340-499XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universitat Jaume I
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 298 / 697 | 57th | Q2 |
| Classics | 85 / 196 | 56th | Q2 |
| History | 983 / 1936 | 49th | Q3 |
| Religious Studies | 412 / 760 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Potestas is Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 298 of 697), Q2 in Classics (rank 85 of 196) and Q3 in History (rank 983 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Potestas 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 2.
Potestas is published by Universitat Jaume I. Its print ISSN is 1888-9867 and its online ISSN is 2340-499X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Potestas has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #130 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Potestas published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 19. 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 43 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (76.7%), Mexico (7%) and Germany (4.7%). 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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