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Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0901-8328Verify ISSN ↗1502-7244Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 458 / 1186 | 61st | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 432 / 760 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 458 of 1186) and Q3 in Religious Studies (rank 432 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.110, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0901-8328 and its online ISSN is 1502-7244.
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.
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #318 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 26. 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 86 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.8%), Israel (14%) and Norway (8.1%).
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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