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Religion and Theology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1023-0807Verify ISSN ↗1574-3012Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 187 / 760 | 75th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 475 / 744 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 0.8.
Religion and Theology is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 187 of 760) and Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 475 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Religion and Theology 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.164, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
Religion and Theology is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1023-0807 and its online ISSN is 1574-3012.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Religion and Theology has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #285 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Religion and Theology published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 42. 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 South Africa (53%), United States (17.2%) and Indonesia (6.5%). 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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