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South African Museums Association Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by South African Museums Association.
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ISSN 0258-5049Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Museums Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museology | 50 / 96 | 48th | Q3 |
| History | 1037 / 1936 | 46th | Q3 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 420 / 692 | 39th | Q3 |
| Conservation | 73 / 108 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2024, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
South African Museums Association Bulletin is Q3 in Museology (rank 50 of 96), Q3 in History (rank 1037 of 1936) and Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 420 of 692), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
South African Museums Association Bulletin 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.106, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 2.
South African Museums Association Bulletin is published by South African Museums Association. Its ISSN is 0258-5049.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
South African Museums Association Bulletin has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 86 Scopus journals in Museology.
South African Museums Association Bulletin published 4 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2005 with 29. 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.
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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