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Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Qatar University Press.
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ISSN 2305-5545Verify ISSN ↗2523-1715Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Qatar University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 482 / 1434 | 66th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 289 / 692 | 58th | Q2 |
| Law | 705 / 1162 | 39th | Q3 |
| Education | 1283 / 1698 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 482 of 1434), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 289 of 692) and Q3 in Law (rank 705 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies 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 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.156, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 3.
Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies is published by Qatar University Press. Its print ISSN is 2305-5545 and its online ISSN is 2523-1715.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #638 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 44. 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 59 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Qatar (33.9%), Saudi Arabia (11.9%) and Morocco (10.2%).
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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