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Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), WoS SSCI. Published by South African Academy for Science and the Arts.
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ISSN 0041-4751Verify ISSN ↗2224-7912Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Academy for Science and the Arts
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 94 / 175 | 46th | Q3 |
| Social Sciences (all) | 234 / 286 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe is Q3 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 94 of 175) and Q4 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 234 of 286), by CiteScore 2025.
Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe is indexed in the 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 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.189, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe is published by South African Academy for Science and the Arts. Its print ISSN is 0041-4751 and its online ISSN is 2224-7912.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #109 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 95. 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 81 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (94.4%), Netherlands (1.9%) and Russia (1.2%). 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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