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Contemporary Buddhism is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1463-9947Verify ISSN ↗1476-7953Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 239 / 760 | 68th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 343 / 891 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2010–2024), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Contemporary Buddhism is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 239 of 760) and Q2 in Philosophy (rank 343 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Buddhism 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.166, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
Contemporary Buddhism is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1463-9947 and its online ISSN is 1476-7953.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contemporary Buddhism has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Contemporary Buddhism published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 34. 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 57 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (24.3%), United Kingdom (13.2%) and Sri Lanka (12.3%).
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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