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Journal of Contemporary Religion is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1353-7903Verify ISSN ↗1469-9419Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 83 / 760 | 89th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 251 / 1434 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Philosophy | 179 / 891 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Contemporary Religion is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 83 of 760), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 251 of 1434) and Q1 in Philosophy (rank 179 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Contemporary Religion 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.329, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
Journal of Contemporary Religion is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1353-7903 and its online ISSN is 1469-9419.
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 Contemporary Religion has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #191 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Contemporary Religion published 95 papers in 2025. 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 33 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (54.5%), United States (15.2%) and Sweden (9.1%). 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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