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Theology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0040-571XVerify ISSN ↗2044-2696Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 533 / 760 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1992–1993, 1968–1989, 1939–1946, 1924–1933, 1920–1922), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Theology is Q3 in Religious Studies (rank 533 of 760), by CiteScore 2025.
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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.130, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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.
Theology is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0040-571X and its online ISSN is 2044-2696.
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.
Theology has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #452 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Theology published 157 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 222. 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 49 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (51%), United States (19.4%) and Pakistan (4.1%). 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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