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ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

SPRINGERNATURE · GB · Est. 2009

ISSN2065-5924eISSN2066-7779
✓ WOS ESCI
Removed from DOAJ (2025-08-14). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is not open access. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗
Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

H-Indexi
13
Total Worksi
256
Total Citationsi
606
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.83
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

The International Scientific Journal of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), publishes original papers in English in several areas of sciences.

General Information

Country / RegionGB
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published2009
Annual Volume~ 17 articles / year
StatusActive (last: 2025)
Total Publications256
Publisher OrgDe Gruyter Open
OA Since2012
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Submission Info

Peer Reviewpeer-reviewing
OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND
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?
SPRINGERNATURE
✅
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
✅
Is the ISSN verified?
2065-5924 / 2066-7779
✅
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS
✅
Peer review process documented?
peer-reviewing
❌
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

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
22
37
2019
10
10
2020
20
27
2021
17
14
2022
22
21
2023
18
25
2024
11
1
2025
10
0
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.

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Film, Radio, Television

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Cinema and Media StudiesVisual Culture and Art TheoryDigital Games and MediaShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary CriticismArt, Politics, and ModernismPhotography and Visual CultureNarrative Theory and AnalysisItalian Fascism and Post-war SocietyNostalgia and Consumer BehaviorMemory, Trauma, and Commemoration

Frequently asked questions about ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Is ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES a predatory journal?

ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is not open access" (2025-08-14). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES?

ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA 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. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.83.

Is ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES is indexed in Web of Science.

What is the aims and scope of ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES?

The International Scientific Journal of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), publishes original papers in English in several areas of sciences.

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Data updated: 2026-05-26 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref