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Journal of Religion and Violence is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1). Published by Philosophy Documentation Center.
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ISSN 2159-6808Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 55 / 760 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Law | 352 / 1162 | 69th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 592 / 1530 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2019–2022), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
Journal of Religion and Violence is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 55 of 760), Q2 in Law (rank 352 of 1162) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 592 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Religion and Violence 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 2.1, quartile Q1, 92nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.130, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Journal of Religion and Violence is published by Philosophy Documentation Center. Its ISSN is 2159-6808.
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 Religion and Violence has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #536 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Religion and Violence published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 30. 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.
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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