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Journal for the History of Modern Theology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0943-7592Verify ISSN ↗1612-9776Verify 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 | 1508 / 1936 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Religious Studies | 613 / 760 | 19th | Q4 |
| Philosophy | 721 / 891 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal for the History of Modern Theology is Q4 in History (rank 1508 of 1936), Q4 in Religious Studies (rank 613 of 760) and Q4 in Philosophy (rank 721 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal for the History of Modern Theology 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.100, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
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.
Journal for the History of Modern Theology is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0943-7592 and its online ISSN is 1612-9776.
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 History of Modern Theology has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,030 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal for the History of Modern Theology published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 33. 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 54 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (55.6%), United States (13%) and United Kingdom (11.1%). 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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