Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

ISSN 0304-1042 · Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture · Japan · active 1960–2025

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q4
Cites per paper (2y)
2.1
SJR
0.101
h-index
26

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

DOAJScopusWeb of Science

Access status: gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

japanesecultureculturalchinesephilosophysociologypoliticalreligiousspiritualpracticesreligionsociety

Frequently asked

Is Japanese Journal of Religious Studies a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, which is a positive signal.

Is Japanese Journal of Religious Studies indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies appears in: DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is Japanese Journal of Religious Studies's impact?

Papers in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies are cited about 2.1 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q4, with an h-index of 26. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Japanese Journal of Religious Studies open access?

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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