Curator

John Wiley & Sons Inc. · United States · Est. 1958

ISSN2151-6952

SJR Q1✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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

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

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.361

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.973

Total Worksi

2,906

Total Citationsi

20,819

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.60

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Humanities, Multidisciplinary; Conservation; Museology.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1958

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,906

Publisher OrgWiley

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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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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2151-6952

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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

423

2019

316

2020

487

2021

171

2022

116

2023

108

2024

2025

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.

ConservationQ1

MuseologyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Humanities, Multidisciplinary

Scopus Categories

MuseologyConservation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Museums and Cultural HeritageCultural Heritage Management and PreservationConservation Techniques and StudiesCultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentAnimal and Plant Science EducationArt Education and DevelopmentArt History and Market AnalysisSpecies Distribution and Climate ChangeConferences and Exhibitions ManagementArchaeological Research and Protection

Frequently asked questions about Curator

Is Curator a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Curator: 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 Curator?

Curator 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 0.60.

Is Curator indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Curator is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Curator?