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Journal of Africana Religions is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Penn State University Press.
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ISSN 2165-5405Verify ISSN ↗2165-5413Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 191 / 760 | 74th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 491 / 1434 | 65th | Q2 |
| Anthropology | 275 / 536 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Africana Religions is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 191 of 760), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 491 of 1434) and Q3 in Anthropology (rank 275 of 536), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Africana Religions 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.145, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of Africana Religions is published by Penn State University Press. Its print ISSN is 2165-5405 and its online ISSN is 2165-5413.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Africana Religions has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #222 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Africana Religions published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 31. 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 88 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (60.8%), United Kingdom (6.8%) and Canada (5.7%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (3.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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