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Vetus Testamentum is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0042-4935Verify ISSN ↗1568-5330Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 419 / 1186 | 64th | Q2 |
| History | 980 / 1936 | 49th | Q3 |
| Religious Studies | 410 / 760 | 46th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 721 / 1137 | 36th | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 833 / 1221 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1951 (also 1954–1956, 1959–1961, 1963, 1965–1967, 1969–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Vetus Testamentum is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 419 of 1186), Q3 in History (rank 980 of 1936) and Q3 in Religious Studies (rank 410 of 760), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Vetus Testamentum 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.182, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
Vetus Testamentum is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0042-4935 and its online ISSN is 1568-5330.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vetus Testamentum has an h-index of 77 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #249 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Vetus Testamentum published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 97. 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 91 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.8%), Israel (15.4%) and United Kingdom (13.2%).
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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