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Journal of Buddhist Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Pennsylvania State University.
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ISSN 1076-9005Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 227 / 760 | 70th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 328 / 891 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present (also 2002, 1998–1999), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Buddhist Ethics is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 227 of 760) and Q2 in Philosophy (rank 328 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Buddhist Ethics 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 0.7, quartile Q2, 70th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.188, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Buddhist Ethics is published by Pennsylvania State University. Its ISSN is 1076-9005.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Buddhist Ethics has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #536 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Buddhist Ethics published 2 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 29. 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.
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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