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Church History and Religious Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1871-241XVerify ISSN ↗1871-2428Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1185 / 1936 | 38th | Q3 |
| Religious Studies | 487 / 760 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 1979–1994, 1976–1977, 1974, 1968–1972, 1965, 1962–1963, 1955, 1952, 1948, 1939–1940, 1935–1936, 1932, 1929, 1927, 1915, 1912, 1908), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Church History and Religious Culture is Q3 in History (rank 1185 of 1936) and Q3 in Religious Studies (rank 487 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Church History and Religious Culture 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.114, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
Church History and Religious Culture is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1871-241X and its online ISSN is 1871-2428.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Church History and Religious Culture has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,280 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Church History and Religious Culture published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 80. 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 89 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (23%), United Kingdom (18%) and Netherlands (16.9%).
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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