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Oxford Journal of Law and Religion is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2047-0770Verify ISSN ↗2047-0789Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,533 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 67 / 760 | 91st | Q1 |
| Law | 401 / 1162 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Oxford Journal of Law and Religion is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 67 of 760) and Q2 in Law (rank 401 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.261, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,533 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Oxford Journal of Law and Religion is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 2047-0770 and its online ISSN is 2047-0789.
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.
Oxford Journal of Law and Religion has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #128 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Oxford Journal of Law and Religion published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 73. 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 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (25.4%), Germany (11.4%) and United States (10.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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