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Journal of Islamic Manuscripts is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1878-4631Verify ISSN ↗1878-464XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Arts and Performing Arts | 147 / 697 | 78th | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 511 / 1434 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts is Q1 in Visual Arts and Performing Arts (rank 147 of 697) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 511 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 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 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.206, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 10.
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1878-4631 and its online ISSN is 1878-464X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #333 of 630 Scopus journals in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 27. 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 (16%), Netherlands (12.8%) and United States (12.8%).
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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