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Journal of Church and State is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0021-969XVerify ISSN ↗2040-4867Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,913 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 471 / 1936 | 75th | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 204 / 760 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1033 / 1530 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1994, 1980–1992, 1959–1978), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Church and State is Q1 in History (rank 471 of 1936), Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 204 of 760) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1033 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Church and State 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.161, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,913 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 of Church and State is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0021-969X and its online ISSN is 2040-4867.
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 Church and State has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,030 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Church and State published 94 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 118. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (61.7%), Sweden (6.1%) and Germany (4.4%). 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 (0.1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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