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Sociology of Religion is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Association for the Sociology of Religion.
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ISSN 1069-4404Verify ISSN ↗1759-8818Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Association for the Sociology of Religion
Cost to publish: About US$3,492 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 23 / 760 | 97th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 133 / 744 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1998–2001, 1996, 1986–1994, 1980–1984, 1977–1978, 1964–1975), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Sociology of Religion is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 23 of 760) and Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 133 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Sociology of Religion is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.235, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 63.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,492 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.
Sociology of Religion is published by Association for the Sociology of Religion. Its print ISSN is 1069-4404 and its online ISSN is 1759-8818.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sociology of Religion has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 2.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Sociology of Religion published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 91. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (50.9%), United Kingdom (7%) and Poland (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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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