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Vestnik Drevnei Istorii is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Izdatel'stvo Nauka.
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ISSN 0321-0391Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Izdatel'stvo Nauka
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classics | 101 / 196 | 48th | Q3 |
| History | 1098 / 1936 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Archeology (arts and humanities) | 327 / 462 | 29th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 894 / 1221 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Vestnik Drevnei Istorii is Q3 in Classics (rank 101 of 196), Q3 in History (rank 1098 of 1936) and Q3 in Archeology (arts and humanities) (rank 327 of 462), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Vestnik Drevnei Istorii is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Vestnik Drevnei Istorii is published by Izdatel'stvo Nauka. Its ISSN is 0321-0391.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vestnik Drevnei Istorii has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 138 Scopus journals in Classics.
Vestnik Drevnei Istorii published 17 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 74. 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 15 research articles (2024), authors are most often from Russia (93.3%) and Ireland (6.7%). 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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