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Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), WoS AHCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0044-2526Verify ISSN ↗1613-0103Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 738 / 1936 | 61st | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 315 / 760 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1950–present (also 1948, 1943–1944, 1941, 1920–1939, 1918, 1881–1916), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft is Q2 in History (rank 738 of 1936) and Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 315 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 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 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.194, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0044-2526 and its online ISSN is 1613-0103.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #346 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 46. 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 70 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (28.6%), Israel (20.7%) and United States (14.3%).
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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