Arabica

Brill Academic Publishers · Netherlands · Est. 1954

ISSN1570-0585

SJR Q2✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.135

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.185

Total Worksi

3,168

Total Citationsi

8,670

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.06

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: History; Religion; Literature and Literary Theory; Religious Studies; Cultural Studies; Linguistics and Language.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1954

Annual Volume~ 30 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications3,168

Publisher OrgBrill

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Brill Academic Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1570-0585

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

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2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Literature and Literary TheoryQ2

Religious StudiesQ2

Cultural StudiesQ3

Linguistics and LanguageQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

HistoryReligion

Scopus Categories

Cultural StudiesReligious StudiesLiterature and Literary TheoryLinguistics and Language

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Islamic Studies and HistoryArchaeology and Historical StudiesHistorical and Linguistic StudiesAfrican history and culture analysisLanguage, Linguistics, Cultural AnalysisMedieval and Classical PhilosophyMulticulturalism, Politics, Migration, GenderEducation and Islamic StudiesEurasian Exchange NetworksHistorical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies

Frequently asked questions about Arabica

Is Arabica a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Arabica: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Arabica?

Arabica is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.06.

Is Arabica indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Arabica is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Arabica?