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Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Equinox Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 2049-7555Verify ISSN ↗2049-7563Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 279 / 760 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 68 / 77 | 12th | Q4 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 116 / 129 | 10th | Q4 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 158 / 169 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–2025 (also 2019–2022), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 279 of 760), Q4 in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (rank 68 of 77) and Q4 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 116 of 129), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.121, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion is published by Equinox Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2049-7555 and its online ISSN is 2049-7563.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #205 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 27. 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 78 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.9%), Denmark (20.5%) and Czechia (9%).
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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