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Ecclesiastical Law Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0956-618XVerify ISSN ↗1751-8539Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 390 / 760 | 48th | Q3 |
| Law | 908 / 1162 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Ecclesiastical Law Journal is Q3 in Religious Studies (rank 390 of 760) and Q4 in Law (rank 908 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Ecclesiastical Law Journal 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.103, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Ecclesiastical Law Journal is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0956-618X and its online ISSN is 1751-8539.
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.
Ecclesiastical Law Journal has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #501 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Ecclesiastical Law Journal published 87 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 165. 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 28 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (75%), Australia (7.1%) and United States (5.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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