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Elementa
ISSN 2785-4558 · eISSN 2785-4426 · LED Edizioni Universitarie · Italy
Elementa: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Elementa is published by LED Edizioni Universitarie. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism, Anthropological Studies and Insights and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, together about 25.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Elementa. Filosofie e Storie della Filosofia. Philosophies and Histories of Philosophy, picking up the threads of the first three issues of the journal Elementa. Intersections between Philosophy, Epistemology, and Empirical Perspectives, on the one hand, wishes to continue to be a critical space for re-establishing what the philosophical tradition has rigidified, restoring philosophy to its original nature as a plural, dialogical, and situated practice. On the other, it seeks to pluralize traditions of thought — Western and non-Western — and their histories.The importance of Elementa lies in its ability to shift the focus: no longer a history of philosophy constructed around a Eurocentric axis, but a constellation of genealogies, concepts, forms of rationality, and discursive practices emerging from diverse cultural contexts. This is not a simple expansion of the repertoire, but an epistemological gesture: recognizing that thought is never neutral, that every tradition arises from specific historical, linguistic, and material conditions, and that only by relating these conditions is it possible to understand the global scope of philosophical questions and their cultural and creative pluralism.This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges. ______ Elementa. Filosofie e Storie della Filosofia. Philosophies and Histories of Philosophy, nel riprendere le fila dei primi tre numeri della rivista Elementa. Intersections between Philosophy, Epistemology and Empirical Perspectives, da una parte desidera continuare a essere uno spazio critico con cui rimettere in movimento ciò che la tradizione filosofica ha irrigidito, restituendo alla filosofia la sua natura originaria di pratica plurale, dialogica e situata, e dall’altra vuole declinare al plurale le tradizioni di pensiero – occidentali e extra occidentali – e le loro storie. L’importanza di Elementa risiede nella sua capacità di dislocare il centro, con una ricostruzione storiaco-filosofica non più sviluppata attorno all’asse eurocentrico, ma una costellazione di genealogie, concetti, forme di razionalità e pratiche discorsive che emergono da contesti culturali differenti. Non si tratta di un semplice ampliamento del repertorio, ma di un gesto epistemologico: riconoscere che il pensiero non è mai neutro, che ogni tradizione nasce da condizioni storiche, linguistiche e materiali specifiche, e che solo mettendo in relazione tali condizioni è possibile comprendere la portata globale delle domande filosofic
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Earth and Planetary Sciences-Geology
Editor-in-chief Paolo PonzioPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Philosophy, Ethics, and ExistentialismArts and Humanities12.8%
- Anthropological Studies and InsightsSocial Sciences6.4%
- Epistemology, Ethics, and MetaphysicsArts and Humanities6.4%
- Emile Durkheim and SociologySocial Sciences6.4%
- Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and PoliticsPsychology6.4%
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology ResearchPsychology4.3%
- Phenomenology and Existential PhilosophyPsychology4.3%
- Gender and Feminist StudiesSocial Sciences4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | Q1 | 9/154 | — |
| Geology | Q1 | 21/333 | — |
| Ecology | Q1 | 38/491 | — |
| Atmospheric Science | Q1 | 14/160 | — |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | Q1 | 31/244 | — |
| Environmental Engineering | Q1 | 43/241 | — |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 9.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.49LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.19LetPub ·
- h-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.2OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 32 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| 2022 | 22 | 22 | 1 |
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 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 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-NC-ND | |
| 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)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 180 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Self-archiving
- Publication ethics Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
Elementa. Philosophies and Histories of Philosophy expects all parties involved in the act of publishing commit to these publication ethics. Our Editorial Board will remove any work that does not meet these standards. Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Authors of Elementa must undertake the following responsibilities Originality and Plagiarism: T…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
The files included in Elementa are freely available: no registration or subscription required to read, print, download or share the full-text of articles. For Authors: The Journal does not require the transfer of copyright, which means that authors retain all rights to the content of their texts. The Authors authorize the Publisher to issue their articles under a Creative Commons “Attribution-NonC…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
The files included in "Elementa" are freely available: no registration or subscription required to read, print, download or share the full-text of articles. The works included in the Journal are licensed under a Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND)” license. The Journal provides immediate open access to its content. Nevertheless you may not use …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Peer review Model summary
Elementa. Filosofie e Storie della Filosofia. Philosophies and Histories of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed journal.Works submitted to the Journal should be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. In submitting works to the Journal, authors agree that their works may be published (if accepted). Submission of a work does not guarantee acceptance. All submitted works judged sui…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Archiving and Self-archiving
Authors may self-archive the post-print (ie the final draft post-refereeing) and the final published files in their institutional repositories. See Copyright Notice - For Authors. Led on Line works with www.portico.org to ensure secure and permanent preservation of journals.
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
- LED Edizioni Universitarie
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2785-4558
- Electronic ISSN
- 2785-4426
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- 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 Elementa
How long does peer review take at Elementa?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 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 Elementa?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Elementa is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Elementa open access, and what is the APC?
Elementa 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: .