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SPAL is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Seville University Press.
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ISSN 1133-4525Verify ISSN ↗2255-3924Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Seville University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 185 / 1936 | 90th | Q1 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 83 / 462 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Archeology | 79 / 388 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.4.
SPAL is Q1 in History (rank 185 of 1936), Q1 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 83 of 462) and Q1 in Archeology (rank 79 of 388), by CiteScore 2025.
SPAL 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.361, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 9.
SPAL is published by Seville University Press. Its print ISSN is 1133-4525 and its online ISSN is 2255-3924.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
SPAL has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #128 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
SPAL published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 31. 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 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (74.6%), Portugal (10.2%) and United Kingdom (3.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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