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Religion, State and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0963-7494Verify ISSN ↗1465-3974Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 63 / 760 | 91st | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 626 / 1530 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.
Religion, State and Society is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 63 of 760) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 626 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Religion, State and Society 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 2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.493, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 30.
Religion, State and Society is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0963-7494 and its online ISSN is 1465-3974.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Religion, State and Society has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 1.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Religion, State and Society published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 56. 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 Kingdom (16%), United States (10.8%) and Germany (10.3%).
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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