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Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Toronto Press.
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ISSN 1703-289XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 264 / 760 | 65th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 639 / 1434 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 264 of 760) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 639 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.118, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is published by University of Toronto Press. Its ISSN is 1703-289X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 25. 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (51.2%), Canada (13.5%) and United Kingdom (5.9%). 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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