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Vernacular Architecture is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Maney Publishing.
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ISSN 0305-5477Verify ISSN ↗1749-6292Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 488 / 697 | 29th | Q3 |
| History | 1512 / 1936 | 21st | Q4 |
| Conservation | 92 / 108 | 15th | Q4 |
| Architecture | 189 / 210 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Vernacular Architecture is Q3 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 488 of 697), Q4 in History (rank 1512 of 1936) and Q4 in Conservation (rank 92 of 108), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Vernacular Architecture 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.158, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
Vernacular Architecture is published by Maney Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0305-5477 and its online ISSN is 1749-6292.
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.
Vernacular Architecture has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Vernacular Architecture published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 31. 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 20 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (50%), Türkiye (10%) and Belgium (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.
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