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Journal of Religion is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0022-4189Verify ISSN ↗1549-6538Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 236 / 760 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1982), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Religion is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 236 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Religion is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.151, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
Journal of Religion is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0022-4189 and its online ISSN is 1549-6538.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Religion has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #479 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Religion published 123 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 123. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (74.5%), United Kingdom (7.1%) and Israel (3.6%). 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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