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Politics and Religion Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Center for Study of Religion and Religious Tolerance.
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ISSN 1820-6581Verify ISSN ↗1820-659XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Center for Study of Religion and Religious Tolerance
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 437 / 760 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1320 / 1530 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Politics and Religion Journal is Q3 in Religious Studies (rank 437 of 760) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1320 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Politics and Religion Journal 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.156, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Politics and Religion Journal is published by Center for Study of Religion and Religious Tolerance. Its print ISSN is 1820-6581 and its online ISSN is 1820-659X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Politics and Religion Journal has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #285 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Politics and Religion Journal published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 30. 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 93 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (16.1%), Saudi Arabia (11.1%) and Russia (10.2%).
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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