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Politics and Religion is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.9), WoS AHCI/SSCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1755-0483Verify ISSN ↗1755-0491Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 24 / 760 | 96th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 313 / 1530 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.9.
Politics and Religion is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 24 of 760) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 313 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Politics and Religion is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.741, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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.
Politics and Religion is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1755-0483 and its online ISSN is 1755-0491.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Politics and Religion has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Politics and Religion published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 83. 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (50%), Germany (9.3%) and United Kingdom (8.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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