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Kierkegaard Studies

Walter de Gruyter GmbH · Germany · Est. 1996

ISSN1612-9792
SJR Q4WOS ESCIScopus / 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.
Q4
SJR · Scopus
Bottom 25%
Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ
SJR Scorei
0.108
H-Indexi
11
CiteScorei
0.3
SNIPi
0.842
Total Worksi
763
Total Citationsi
972
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.05
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

The goal of the Yearbook is to advance Kierkegaard studies by encouraging top-level scholarship in the field. The editorial and advisory boards are deeply committed to creating a genuinely international forum for publication which integrates the many different traditions of Kierkegaard studies and brings them into a constructive and fruitful dialogue. To this end the Yearbook publishes articles from all related fields (philosophy, theology, literary studies etc.) in English, French and German.

General Information

Country / RegionGermany
Primary LanguageEnglish, French, German
1st Year Published1996
Frequency1 issue per year
StatusActive (last: 2025)
Total Publications763
Publisher OrgDe Gruyter
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Submission Info

Peer Reviewblindly refereed
OA License
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes
Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

8/11 · 73%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1612-9792
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus
Peer review process documented?
blindly refereed
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
Yes
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
N/A
Primary language documented?
English, French, German

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
24
14
2018
26
39
2019
25
6
2020
31
19
2021
30
4
2022
24
6
2023
24
2
2024
20
0
2025

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.

PhilosophyQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

PhilosophyReligion

Scopus Categories

Philosophy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Kierkegaardian Philosophy and InfluenceLiterary and Philosophical StudiesNietzsche, Schopenhauer, and HegelPhilosophy, Ethics, and ExistentialismTheology and Philosophy of EvilPhilosophy and Historical ThoughtDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesRussian Literature and Bakhtin StudiesGerman Literature and Culture StudiesLiterature and Cultural Memory

Frequently asked questions about Kierkegaard Studies

Is Kierkegaard Studies a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Kierkegaard Studies: 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 Kierkegaard Studies?

Kierkegaard Studies 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. As an open alternative, its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3.

Is Kierkegaard Studies indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Kierkegaard Studies is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Kierkegaard Studies?

The goal of the Yearbook is to advance Kierkegaard studies by encouraging top-level scholarship in the field. The editorial and advisory boards are deeply committed to creating a genuinely international forum for publication which integrates the many different traditions of Kierkegaard studies and brings them into a constructive and fruitful dialogue. To this end the Yearbook publishes articles from all related fields (philosophy, theology, literary studies etc.) in English, French and German.

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref