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Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies

ELM Scholarly Press · Estonia · Est. 2018

ISSN2613-7852

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.112

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.155

Total Worksi

151

Total Citationsi

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.06

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies (YBBS) is a peer-reviewed annual English language journal for the study of humanities (incl. ethnology, folklore, religiosity, and migration studies), global relations and influences of the past events and modern developments in the area. YBBS welcomes contributions in the fields of critical and comparative analyses of cultural history.

General Information

Country / RegionEstonia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2018

Frequencyannual

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications151

Publisher OrgEstonian Literary Museum Scholarly Press

OA Since2017

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

ELM Scholarly Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2613-7852

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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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?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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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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.

HistoryQ3

Political Science and International RelationsQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

AnthropologyHistoryCultural StudiesReligious StudiesDemographyPolitical Science and International Relations

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Folklore, Mythology, and Literature StudiesReligious Studies and Spiritual PracticesReligious Tourism and SpacesCulinary Culture and TourismHistorical Geopolitical and Social DynamicsEuropean Linguistics and AnthropologySustainable Urban and Rural DevelopmentEuropean Cultural and National IdentitySoviet and Russian HistoryCultural Heritage Management and Preservation

Frequently asked questions about Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies

Is Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies: it is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies?

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.112.

Is Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ.