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Secular Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 362 / 760 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 466 / 891 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Secular Studies is Q2 in Religious Studies (rank 362 of 760) and Q3 in Philosophy (rank 466 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Secular Studies 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.252, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 5.
Secular Studies is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 2589-2517 and its online ISSN is 2589-2525.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Secular Studies has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Secular Studies published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 24. 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 75 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Belgium (16.7%), United States (16%) and Canada (12%).
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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