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Politics, Religion and Ideology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 2156-7689Verify ISSN ↗2156-7697Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 89 / 760 | 88th | Q1 |
| Philosophy | 187 / 891 | 79th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 356 / 414 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2011), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Politics, Religion and Ideology is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 89 of 760), Q1 in Philosophy (rank 187 of 891) and Q4 in Molecular Biology (rank 356 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Politics, Religion and Ideology 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.605, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Politics, Religion and Ideology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2156-7689 and its online ISSN is 2156-7697.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Politics, Religion and Ideology has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Politics, Religion and Ideology published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 66. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (13.9%), Türkiye (9.8%) and United Kingdom (7.7%).
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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