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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. Published by Royal Irish Academy.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0035-8991Verify ISSN ↗2009-0048Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Irish Academy
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 257 / 1186 | 78th | Q1 |
| History | 707 / 1936 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 705 / 1434 | 50th | Q2 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 230 / 462 | 50th | Q2 |
| Archeology | 217 / 388 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2025 (also 2001, 1987, 1977), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.5.
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 257 of 1186), Q2 in History (rank 707 of 1936) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 705 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.139, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature is published by Royal Irish Academy. Its print ISSN is 0035-8991 and its online ISSN is 2009-0048.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #485 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature published 20 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 29 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Ireland (72.4%), United Kingdom (24.1%) and Denmark (3.4%). 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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