Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-Classics
Keria
ISSN 1580-0261 · eISSN 2350-4234 · Ljubljana University Press · Slovenia
Keria: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 16 weeks (community reports); 21 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Keria is published by Ljubljana University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Classical Studies and Philology, Classical Antiquity Studies and Classical Philosophy and Thought, together about 65.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Keria (Greek for ‘honeycomb’) was founded by the Slovenian Society for Classical and Humanistic Studies in 1999. As a national journal for all fields of Greek and Latin studies, it is committed to fostering dialogue between scholarship, teaching, and other areas of culture. It is issued twice a year and it welcomes research articles, translations, pedagogical contributions, literary essays, book reviews, and other submissions relevant to the study of classical antiquity and its reception, Latin and Byzantine Middle Ages, Latin humanism, and Modern Greek language and culture.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Classics
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Classical Studies and PhilologyArts and Humanities26.9%
- Classical Antiquity StudiesSocial Sciences25.8%
- Classical Philosophy and ThoughtArts and Humanities12.4%
- Linguistics and language evolutionArts and Humanities3.7%
- Renaissance Literature and CultureArts and Humanities3.6%
- Renaissance and Early Modern StudiesArts and Humanities2.9%
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and HistoryArts and Humanities2.2%
- Biographical and Historical AnalysisArts and Humanities2.2%
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.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | Q4 | 929/1186 | 21st |
| Classics | Q4 | 168/196 | 14th |
| Language and Linguistics | Q4 | 1027/1137 | 9th |
| Linguistics and Language | Q4 | 1118/1221 | 8th |
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, EBSCO, CNKI, Sherpa Romeo
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
- 0.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.12LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.15LetPub ·
- h-index
- 4OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.08OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 695 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2025 | 21 | 21 | 11 |
| 2024 | 29 | 29 | 9 |
| 2023 | 32 | 32 | 31 |
| 2022 | 22 | 22 | 31 |
| 2021 | 21 | 21 | 22 |
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 16 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-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)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Chicago
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Copyright retained by authors; first publication licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Model summary
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: Authors are confirming that they are the authors of the submitting article, which will be published (print and online) in Keria by University of Ljubljana Press (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia). Author’s name will be evident in the article in journal. All decisions regarding layout …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
This is a diamond open-access journal which means that all content is freely available online without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOA…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
All manuscripts in Keria are peer reviewed. They are examined by the editors upon receipt. Afterwards the authors are (if necessary) asked to correct or change the manuscript. After the manuscript has been corrected it is sent to two anonymous reviewers (double-blind peer review). If the reviews require the manuscript to be corrected or augmented, the review will be sent to the author to correct t…
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
- Ljubljana University Press
- Country or region
- Slovenia
- Language
- Modern Greek (1453-), English, Slovenian, Latin
- ISSN
- 1580-0261
- Electronic ISSN
- 2350-4234
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 27, Issue 2 (2025)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- 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 Keria
How long does peer review take at Keria?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 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 Keria?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Keria is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Keria open access, and what is the APC?
Keria 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .