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Hamdard Islamicus is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1), DOAJ. Published by Hamdard National Foundation.
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ISSN 0250-7196Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hamdard National Foundation
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 103 / 1936 | 94th | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 58 / 760 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 191 / 1434 | 86th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 276 / 745 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2025 (also 1987), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
Hamdard Islamicus is Q1 in History (rank 103 of 1936), Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 58 of 760) and Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 191 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Hamdard Islamicus is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1, 94th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.148, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Hamdard Islamicus is published by Hamdard National Foundation. Its ISSN is 0250-7196.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Hamdard Islamicus has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #153 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Hamdard Islamicus published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 163. 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 62 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (24.2%), Indonesia (23.4%) and Pakistan (14.5%).
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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