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Religion and American Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1052-1151Verify ISSN ↗1533-8568Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 290 / 760 | 61st | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 683 / 1434 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2001–2024, 1991–1995), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Religion and American Culture is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 290 of 760) and Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 683 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Religion and American Culture 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 19.
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.
Religion and American Culture is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1052-1151 and its online ISSN is 1533-8568.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Religion and American Culture has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #317 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Religion and American Culture published 18 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 18. 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.
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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