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Telos is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Telos Press Publishing.
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ISSN 0090-6514Verify ISSN ↗1940-459XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Telos Press Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 463 / 891 | 47th | Q3 |
| Cultural Studies | 804 / 1434 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1258 / 1530 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Telos is Q3 in Philosophy (rank 463 of 891), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 804 of 1434) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1258 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Telos is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.194, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
Telos is published by Telos Press Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0090-6514 and its online ISSN is 1940-459X.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Telos has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #333 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Telos published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 59. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.7%), China (12.6%) and Australia (11.5%).
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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