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Biblical Interpretation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0927-2569Verify ISSN ↗1568-5152Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 290 / 760 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1988), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Biblical Interpretation is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 290 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Biblical Interpretation 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 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.155, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
Biblical Interpretation is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0927-2569 and its online ISSN is 1568-5152.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biblical Interpretation has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #382 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Biblical Interpretation published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 66. 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 86 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (45.9%), United Kingdom (11%) and Canada (6.4%).
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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