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AlBayan is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2232-1950Verify ISSN ↗2232-1969Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 175 / 760 | 77th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 461 / 1434 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
AlBayan is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 175 of 760) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 461 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
AlBayan is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.284, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 9.
AlBayan is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2232-1950 and its online ISSN is 2232-1969.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
AlBayan has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #278 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
AlBayan published 25 papers in 2025. 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 96 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (56.1%), Indonesia (15.5%) and Saudi Arabia (5.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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