We are extremely proud to announce that the annual journal Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały / Holocaust Studies and Materials has been included in the Scopus database — one of the world’s most important platforms for evaluating scholarly output. This achievement is not only a confirmation of the high substantive quality and stability of our journal, but also a symbolic and concrete step toward strengthening its position in the international academic sphere.

Indexing in Scopus is more than a prestigious mark of quality. It is an entry into the global system of visibility, citability, and comparability of research. It is also a clear signal that the articles published in our annual meet the rigorous scholarly, editorial, and ethical standards that determine the standing of journals in the global hierarchy.

We are all the more pleased with this distinction because for years Zagłada Żydów was kept at an unjustifiably low score on the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s List of Academic Journals. We have written about this before — but it is worth recalling that under Ministers Gowin and Czarnek, Zagłada Żydów was maintained at a “trash-level” score of 20 points. Despite repeated appeals from the Editor-in-Chief and voices from the academic community, successive updates to the list failed to acknowledge that our annual met the criteria qualifying it for a much higher rating—40, or even 70 points.

Today’s news therefore carries special significance. We have received confirmation of the quality we have long been confident in, but above all, we are opening the way for our Authors to receive a truly adequate score for their articles. We hope that as early as 2026 this will directly contribute to their evaluation and further scholarly development.

This is an important day for our team, for our Authors, and for the entire field of Holocaust studies.