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Ekphrasis

Babes-Bolyai University · Romania · Est. 2001

ISSN2559-2068

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ 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

0.142

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

226

Total Citationsi

183

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Film, Radio, Television; Visual Arts and Performing Arts; Communication.

General Information

Country / RegionRomania

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2001

Annual Volume~ 23 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications226

Publisher OrgBabeș-Bolyai University

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

thinkchecksubmit.org

4/11 · 36%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Babes-Bolyai University

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2559-2068

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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?

N/A

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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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.

Visual Arts and Performing ArtsQ2

CommunicationQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Film, Radio, Television

Scopus Categories

Visual Arts and Performing ArtsCommunication

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Cinema and Media StudiesVisual Culture and Art TheoryEcocriticism and Environmental LiteratureDigital Games and MediaNarrative Theory and AnalysisArt, Politics, and ModernismShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary CriticismItalian Fascism and Post-war SocietyGerman Literature and Culture StudiesUtopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

Frequently asked questions about Ekphrasis

Is Ekphrasis a predatory journal?

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

Ekphrasis 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 0.07.

Is Ekphrasis indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Ekphrasis is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Ekphrasis?