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Journal of Empirical Theology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0922-2936Verify ISSN ↗1570-9256Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 190 / 760 | 75th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 479 / 744 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present (also 1988–1994), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Empirical Theology is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 190 of 760) and Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 479 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Empirical Theology 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 Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.261, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
Journal of Empirical Theology is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0922-2936 and its online ISSN is 1570-9256.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Empirical Theology has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Empirical Theology published 23 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 78 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (22.5%), United Kingdom (16.7%) and Finland (12.6%).
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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