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Zygon is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2), WoS AHCI/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Open Library of Humanities.
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ISSN 0591-2385Verify ISSN ↗1467-9744Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 122 / 760 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 365 / 1434 | 74th | Q2 |
| Education | 1162 / 1698 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1966–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Zygon is Q1 in Religious Studies (rank 122 of 760), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 365 of 1434) and Q3 in Education (rank 1162 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Zygon 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.467, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,630 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.
Zygon is published by Open Library of Humanities. Its print ISSN is 0591-2385 and its online ISSN is 1467-9744.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Zygon has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #166 of 634 Scopus journals in Religious Studies.
Zygon published 75 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 99. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.5%), United Kingdom (28.5%) and Norway (5.4%).
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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