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Secularism and Nonreligion is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Ubiquity Press.
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ISSN 2053-6712Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 154 / 1936 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Religious Studies | 87 / 760 | 88th | Q1 |
| Philosophy | 184 / 891 | 79th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 165 / 536 | 69th | Q2 |
| Gender Studies | 96 / 233 | 59th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 727 / 1530 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.6.
Secularism and Nonreligion is Q1 in History (rank 154 of 1936), Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 87 of 760) and Q1 in Philosophy (rank 184 of 891), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Secularism and Nonreligion 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.613, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 9.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$490 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.
Secularism and Nonreligion is published by Ubiquity Press. Its ISSN is 2053-6712.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Secularism and Nonreligion has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #152 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Secularism and Nonreligion published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 11. 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 41 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.2%), United Kingdom (17.5%) and Canada (10%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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