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Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1436-3038Verify ISSN ↗1868-8888Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 262 / 760 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–2024 (also 2012–2020, 1999–2010), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 262 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1436-3038 and its online ISSN is 1868-8888.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #341 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 28. 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 22 research articles (2022–2023), authors are most often from France (27.3%), United States (18.2%) and Italy (18.2%).
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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