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Journal of Global Buddhism is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.4), DOAJ. Published by University of Lucerne.
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ISSN 1527-6457Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Lucerne
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 191 / 1936 | 90th | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 103 / 760 | 86th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 300 / 1434 | 79th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 787 / 1530 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.4.
Journal of Global Buddhism is Q1 in History (rank 191 of 1936), Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 103 of 760) and Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 300 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Global Buddhism is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q1, 90th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.328, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 9.
Journal of Global Buddhism is published by University of Lucerne. Its ISSN is 1527-6457.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Global Buddhism has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #243 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Global Buddhism published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 20. 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 70 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (40%), United Kingdom (13.6%) and Thailand (6.4%).
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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