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Journal of Early Christian Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.3), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 1067-6341Verify ISSN ↗1086-3184Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 219 / 1936 | 88th | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 113 / 760 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of Early Christian Studies is Q1 in History (rank 219 of 1936) and Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 113 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Early Christian Studies 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Journal of Early Christian Studies is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 1067-6341 and its online ISSN is 1086-3184.
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 Early Christian Studies has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #384 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Early Christian Studies published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 72. 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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