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Oriens is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7), WoS AHCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 0078-6527Verify ISSN ↗1877-8372Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 224 / 760 | 70th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 326 / 891 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 557 / 1434 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Oriens is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 224 of 760), Q2 in Philosophy (rank 326 of 891) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 557 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Oriens 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 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.125, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Oriens is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0078-6527 and its online ISSN is 1877-8372.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Oriens has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #357 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Oriens published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 16. 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 50 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (27%), Germany (12%) and France (12%).
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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