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Journal of Biblical Literature is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Society of Biblical Literature.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0021-9231Verify ISSN ↗1934-3876Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 82 / 1186 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 133 / 760 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.1.
Journal of Biblical Literature is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 82 of 1186) and Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 133 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Biblical Literature 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.235, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 38.
Journal of Biblical Literature is published by Society of Biblical Literature. Its print ISSN is 0021-9231 and its online ISSN is 1934-3876.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Biblical Literature has an h-index of 141 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #164 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Journal of Biblical Literature published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 132. 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 87 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (60.3%), United Kingdom (10.3%) and Australia (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. 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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