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Preternature is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Penn State University Press.
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ISSN 2161-2188Verify ISSN ↗2161-2196Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1398 / 1936 | 27th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 1144 / 1434 | 20th | Q4 |
| Anthropology | 472 / 536 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Preternature is Q3 in History (rank 1398 of 1936), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1144 of 1434) and Q4 in Anthropology (rank 472 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Preternature 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 27th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.119, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Preternature is published by Penn State University Press. Its print ISSN is 2161-2188 and its online ISSN is 2161-2196.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Preternature has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #906 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Preternature published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 28. 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 79 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (36.1%), United States (29.1%) and Canada (12%).
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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