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Shima is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Shima Publications (Australia).
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ISSN 1834-6049Verify ISSN ↗1834-6057Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Shima Publications (Australia)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 170 / 1936 | 91st | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 276 / 1434 | 80th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 173 / 536 | 67th | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 533 / 876 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Shima is Q1 in History (rank 170 of 1936), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 276 of 1434) and Q2 in Anthropology (rank 173 of 536), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Shima 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.194, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Shima is published by Shima Publications (Australia). Its print ISSN is 1834-6049 and its online ISSN is 1834-6057.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Shima has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #503 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Shima published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 43. 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 73 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Italy (17.8%), United Kingdom (13%) and India (7.5%).
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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