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Renaissance Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0269-1213Verify ISSN ↗1477-4658Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 243 / 1186 | 79th | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 205 / 697 | 70th | Q2 |
| History | 682 / 1936 | 64th | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 292 / 760 | 61st | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 688 / 1434 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.6.
Renaissance Studies is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 243 of 1186), Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 205 of 697) and Q2 in History (rank 682 of 1936), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Renaissance Studies 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.110, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Renaissance Studies is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0269-1213 and its online ISSN is 1477-4658.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Renaissance Studies has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #787 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Renaissance Studies published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 121. 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 92 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (27.7%), United States (26.1%) and Ireland (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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