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Journal of International Buddhist Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), DOAJ. Published by Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University.
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ISSN 1906-6244Verify ISSN ↗2586-9620Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 484 / 760 | 36th | Q3 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 449 / 692 | 35th | Q3 |
| Philosophy | 597 / 891 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of International Buddhist Studies is Q3 in Religious Studies (rank 484 of 760), Q3 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 449 of 692) and Q3 in Philosophy (rank 597 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of International Buddhist Studies 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 0.3, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 3.
Journal of International Buddhist Studies is published by Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. Its print ISSN is 1906-6244 and its online ISSN is 2586-9620.
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 International Buddhist Studies has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #536 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of International Buddhist Studies 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 40 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Thailand (73.8%), India (12.5%) and United States (3.8%). 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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