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Die Welt des Islams is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0043-2539Verify ISSN ↗1570-0607Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 184 / 1186 | 84th | Q1 |
| History | 571 / 1936 | 70th | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 247 / 760 | 67th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 610 / 1434 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1989–1992, 1985–1986, 1978–1980, 1973–1976, 1971, 1968–1969, 1965–1966, 1961–1962, 1959, 1957, 1951–1955, 1921), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.7.
Die Welt des Islams is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 184 of 1186), Q2 in History (rank 571 of 1936) and Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 247 of 760), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Die Welt des Islams 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 Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.178, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
Die Welt des Islams is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0043-2539 and its online ISSN is 1570-0607.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Die Welt des Islams has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #233 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Die Welt des Islams published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 52. 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 92 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (31%), United States (16.8%) and Israel (8.2%).
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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