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Traditio is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0362-1529Verify ISSN ↗2166-5508Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 165 / 1186 | 86th | Q1 |
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 166 / 697 | 76th | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 230 / 760 | 69th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 330 / 891 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2025 (also 1985–1987, 1980–1982, 1974–1978, 1966), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
Traditio is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 165 of 1186), Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 166 of 697) and Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 230 of 760), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Traditio is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.119, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Traditio is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0362-1529 and its online ISSN is 2166-5508.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Traditio has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 0.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #191 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Traditio published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 15. 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 40 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (38.3%), Spain (15%) and United Kingdom (13.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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