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Synthese Library is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 0166-6991Verify ISSN ↗2542-8292Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 745 / 1936 | 61st | Q2 |
| Language and Linguistics | 602 / 1137 | 47th | Q3 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 146 / 254 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Logic | 39 / 46 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 2005–2010), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Synthese Library is Q2 in History (rank 745 of 1936), Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 602 of 1137) and Q3 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 146 of 254), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Synthese Library 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 0.5, quartile Q2, 61st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Synthese Library is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0166-6991 and its online ISSN is 2542-8292.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Synthese Library has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #371 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Synthese Library published 455 papers in 2025. 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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