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Journal of Religion in Africa is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.9), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0022-4200Verify ISSN ↗1570-0666Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 166 / 760 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present (also 1978–1983, 1967–1976), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Religion in Africa is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 166 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Religion in Africa 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.220, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 43.
Journal of Religion in Africa is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0022-4200 and its online ISSN is 1570-0666.
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 in Africa has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #274 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Journal of Religion in Africa published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 58. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.1%), Nigeria (11.1%) and Germany (9.5%).
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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