Journal profile
Belvedere Meridionale
ISSN 1419-0222 · eISSN 2064-5929 · Belvedere Meridionale LTD. · Hungary
Belvedere Meridionale: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 40 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Belvedere Meridionale is published by Belvedere Meridionale LTD.. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Central European national history, World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact and Medieval Literature and History, together about 36% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Belvedere Meridionale is a double-blind peer-reviewed (by two reviewer with PhD degree) journal. It publishes studies, essays, interviews, reviews and critiques in the field of history and social sciences (demography, military science, cultural antropology, education sciences, etnography, archeology).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Central European national historySocial Sciences20.6%
- World Wars: History, Literature, and ImpactSocial Sciences9.1%
- Medieval Literature and HistoryArts and Humanities6.3%
- Eastern European Communism and ReformsSocial Sciences6.2%
- Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational StudiesSocial Sciences5.6%
- Central European Literary StudiesSocial Sciences5%
- Biographical and Historical AnalysisArts and Humanities4.5%
- Classical Antiquity StudiesSocial Sciences3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 6OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.06OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 648 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 28 | 28 | 21 |
| 2025 | 40 | 40 | 35 |
| 2024 | 46 | 46 | 37 |
| 2023 | 51 | 51 | 40 |
| 2022 | 48 | 48 | 37 |
| 2021 | 35 | 35 | 48 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Publication ethics
Follows Science Ethics Code of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Model summary
Belvedere Meridionale follows the Science Ethics Code of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as its ethical guidelines and expects all its authors to do the same.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright COPYRIGHT AND OPEN ACCESS
Authors retain the copyright to their work under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Publishing under this license also entails that the texts published in Belvedere may be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and adapted (remixed, transformed, and built upon) for any purpose, even commercially under the terms of: Attrib…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access COPYRIGHT AND OPEN ACCESS
Open access, CC BY-SA 4.0 license Model summary
Authors retain the copyright to their work under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Publishing under this license also entails that the texts published in Belvedere may be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and adapted (remixed, transformed, and built upon) for any purpose, even commercially under the terms of: Attrib…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 5. Peer Review
No fees for submission, publication, or archiving Model summary
Submitted manuscripts that match the scope and meet the basic requirements of the journal must undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Based on the two reviews, the editorial board decides whether to accept the paper for publication and notifies the author. The editorial office and the reviewers treat submitted papers confidentially.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Plagiarism detection software may be used Model summary
The journal’s editors may also use plagiarism detection software in order to ensure that no breach is committed.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Belvedere Meridionale LTD.
- Country or region
- Hungary
- Language
- English, French, Hungarian
- ISSN
- 1419-0222
- Electronic ISSN
- 2064-5929
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Belvedere Meridionale
How long does peer review take at Belvedere Meridionale?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Belvedere Meridionale?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Belvedere Meridionale is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Belvedere Meridionale open access, and what is the APC?
Belvedere Meridionale is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .