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Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), DOAJ. Published by Institut Agama Islam Ma'arif NU (IAIMNU) Metro Lampung.
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ISSN 2614-1566Verify ISSN ↗2685-5909Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institut Agama Islam Ma'arif NU (IAIMNU) Metro Lampung
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 88 / 760 | 88th | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 148 / 220 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 88 of 760) and Q3 in Psychology (all) (rank 148 of 220), by CiteScore 2025.
Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal 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 1.6, quartile Q1, 88th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.285, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 8.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$499 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.
Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal is published by Institut Agama Islam Ma'arif NU (IAIMNU) Metro Lampung. Its print ISSN is 2614-1566 and its online ISSN is 2685-5909.
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.
Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 1.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 36. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (69.3%), Jordan (10.1%) and Malaysia (7%). 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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