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History of Religions is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0018-2710Verify ISSN ↗1545-6935Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 517 / 1936 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 219 / 760 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1982, 1979, 1966), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
History of Religions is Q2 in History (rank 517 of 1936) and Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 219 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
History of Religions 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 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.165, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
History of Religions is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0018-2710 and its online ISSN is 1545-6935.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
History of Religions has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #639 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
History of Religions published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 38. 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 67 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (55.7%), Canada (7.2%) and United Kingdom (6%). 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.
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