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Approaching Religion is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History.
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ISSN 1799-3121Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 350 / 1936 | 81st | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 145 / 760 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.
Approaching Religion is Q1 in History (rank 350 of 1936) and Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 145 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Approaching Religion 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 1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.291, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 5.
Approaching Religion is published by Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History. Its ISSN is 1799-3121.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Approaching Religion has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #246 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Approaching Religion published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 32. 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 Finland (50.9%), Sweden (12.1%) and United Kingdom (7.1%). 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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