Folklore (Estonia)

Aims & Scope

One of the first Internet projects in the Estonian folkloristics were two hyperjournals, one in English and the other (Mäetagused) in Estonian.

In 1996, our journals were among the very first of publications in the humanities to publish free full texts online, according to Creative Commons licence BY-NC-ND.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1
2024	0.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	26148

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	34

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.132

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	12

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Contemporary Linguistic Theories of Humour

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Arvo

• Funny or Aggressive? Failed Humour in Internet Comments

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Liisi

• From Listing Data to Semantic Maps: Cross-Linguistic Commonalities in Cognitive Representation of Colour

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Mari, David

• Cosmic Hunt: Variants of Siberian-North American Myth

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Yuri

• Jokes as the Truth about Soviet Socialism

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Christie

• Development of Children's Knowledge: The Sky, the Earth and the Sun in Children's Explanations

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Eve

• Mobile Phone Revolution in the Tundra? Technological Change among Russian Reindeer Nomads

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Florian M.

• Use of Proverbs and Narrative Thought

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Outi

• The Changing Meaning of ‘Thunderbolts’

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Kristiina

• Dwarfs and Cranes. Baltic-Finnish Mythologies in Eurasian and American Perspective (70 years after Yrjö Toivonen)

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Yuri

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