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Mission Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0168-9789Verify ISSN ↗1573-3831Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 611 / 1936 | 68th | Q2 |
| Religious Studies | 260 / 760 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985 (also 1987–1990, 1993–1994, 1996–1997, 2000–2025), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Mission Studies is Q2 in History (rank 611 of 1936) and Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 260 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
Mission Studies 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 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.197, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Mission Studies is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0168-9789 and its online ISSN is 1573-3831.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Mission Studies has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,115 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Mission Studies published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 75. 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 81 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (24.1%), Germany (11.7%) and South Korea (8%).
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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