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Al-Shajarah is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. Published by International Islamic University Malaysia.
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ISSN 1394-6870Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Islamic University Malaysia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 659 / 1936 | 65th | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 283 / 760 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 385 / 891 | 56th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 670 / 1434 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 2011), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Al-Shajarah is Q2 in History (rank 659 of 1936), Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 283 of 760) and Q2 in Philosophy (rank 385 of 891), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Al-Shajarah is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.203, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Al-Shajarah is published by International Islamic University Malaysia. Its ISSN is 1394-6870.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Al-Shajarah has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #324 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Al-Shajarah published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 44. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (44.3%), United States (15.9%) and Indonesia (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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