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SPAFA Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), DOAJ. Published by Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO SPAFA).
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ISSN 0858-1975Verify ISSN ↗2586-8721Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO SPAFA)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 299 / 697 | 57th | Q2 |
| Conservation | 69 / 108 | 36th | Q3 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 301 / 462 | 34th | Q3 |
| Archeology | 268 / 388 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
SPAFA Journal is Q2 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 299 of 697), Q3 in Conservation (rank 69 of 108) and Q3 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 301 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
SPAFA Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2, 57th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.132, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
SPAFA Journal is published by Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO SPAFA). Its print ISSN is 0858-1975 and its online ISSN is 2586-8721.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
SPAFA Journal has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #194 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
SPAFA Journal published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 13. 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 49 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (44.9%), Malaysia (11.9%) and Philippines (10.2%).
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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