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Journal of Dharma is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. Published by Dharmaram College, Centre for the Study of World Religions.
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ISSN 0253-7222Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Dharmaram College, Centre for the Study of World Religions
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 287 / 760 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 390 / 891 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal of Dharma is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 287 of 760) and Q2 in Philosophy (rank 390 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Dharma 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.216, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 6.
Journal of Dharma is published by Dharmaram College, Centre for the Study of World Religions. Its ISSN is 0253-7222.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Dharma has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #536 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Dharma published 1 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 28. 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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