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Journal of Law, Religion and State is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 2212-4810Verify ISSN ↗2212-6465Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 162 / 760 | 78th | Q1 |
| Law | 658 / 1162 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 963 / 1530 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Law, Religion and State is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 162 of 760), Q3 in Law (rank 658 of 1162) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 963 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Law, Religion and State 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 0.9, quartile Q1, 78th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.145, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Law, Religion and State is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2212-4810 and its online ISSN is 2212-6465.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Law, Religion and State has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #436 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Law, Religion and State published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 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 36 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (20.4%), Israel (18.1%) and United Kingdom (12.5%).
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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