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Islam - Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS AHCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0021-1818Verify ISSN ↗1613-0928Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 445 / 1936 | 77th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 485 / 1434 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present (also 2008–2009, 1963–2005, 1956–1961, 1952–1954, 1950, 1948, 1942, 1935–1938, 1932–1933, 1920–1930, 1910–1918), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Islam - Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients is Q1 in History (rank 445 of 1936) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 485 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Islam - Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.190, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Islam - Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0021-1818 and its online ISSN is 1613-0928.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Islam - Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #639 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Islam - Zeitschrift fur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 55. 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (35.3%), United States (14.7%) and France (7.1%).
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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