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Utopian Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Penn State University Press.
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ISSN 1045-991XVerify ISSN ↗2154-9648Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 84 / 175 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 428 / 891 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2011, 2001, 1999, 1990), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Utopian Studies is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 84 of 175) and Q2 in Philosophy (rank 428 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Utopian Studies 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.160, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Utopian Studies is published by Penn State University Press. Its print ISSN is 1045-991X and its online ISSN is 2154-9648.
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.
Utopian Studies has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Utopian Studies published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 102. 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 90 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (56.9%), Germany (9.1%) and Canada (5%). 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.
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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