Biblical Annals

Biblical Annals is published by The Institute of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology and is in Zone 3 of Philosophy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Theology and Canon Law Studies and Historical and Linguistic Studies, together about 51.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Religious studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Biblical Annals is the official scholarly journal of the Institute of Biblical Studies at the Faculty of Theology, the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. It is dedicated to biblical studies and it is divided into the following sections: Old Testament, Intertestamental Literature, New Testament, Varia, Book Reviews, and Biblical News. The journal covers fields of research such as biblical archeology, history, exegesis, philology, hermeneutics, literary studies, studies on culture and religion, and theological studies. The Biblical Annals is an open access journal with all its latest content and back issues digitalized and available for free at our website. Our principle is to provide students and researchers with free access to scholarship and with quality research, using modern technologies and internet delivery platforms. The Biblical Annals is aimed at presenting the research of Polish and international scholars focusing on problems and methodologies current in the contemporary biblical studies. The articles and reviews published in the journal are written in Polish, English, Italian, French, and German. Our contributors are both the senior, prominent and the young, promising Polish scholars representing important academic centers like Warsaw, Cracow, Wroclaw, Katowice, and Lublin. The journal plays an essential role in stimulating the biblical studies and scholarly discussion in our region. The Biblical Annals also welcomes international scholars who want to contribute to it. The international board of scholars (required by Polish academic regulations) and above all the articles and reviews written in foreign languages are aimed at popularizing the Polish biblical publications abroad and to keep it in contact with the international research. The Biblical Annals requires high scientific standards of the submitted papers which are then subjected to a thorough and critical review process. The journal promotes high ethical standards, originality of scholarly works, the rigorous employment of biblical methodologies, and their diversity. Vision, action, innovation and a commitment to continuous improvement, are the core values we share and we believe in. The Biblical Annals edited by the oldest, biggest, and most respected Institute of Biblical Studies in Poland wants to serve as a biblical platform fostering scholarly collaboration and exchange in our region, in a fruitful dialog with international researchers.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

Editor-in-chief Rev. Mirosław WróbelPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Poland 19, United States 1, Germany 1, France 1, Italy 1 (27 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of ScienceERIH PLUSPublisher website

Other: EBSCO, Sherpa Romeo, ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (ATLA CPLI), ATLA Religion Database® (ATLA RDB®), ATLAS, ATLAS plus, Biblioteka Nauki (Library of Science), Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), Google Scholar, Arianta, Baza Artykułów Biblistyki Polskiej (BABP), Humanities Journals (BazHum), Index Copernicus (IC), Index Theologicus (IxTheo), New Testament Abstracts (NTA), Old Testament Abstracts (OTA), POL-Index, Polska Bibliografia Naukowa (PBN), Repozytorium Instytucjonalne KUL

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

0.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

0.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

1.05Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher)

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

1.05LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher)

0.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

8OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.2OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

75%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

89.89%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

31LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

2,026Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 24 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 24 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

The Institute of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology

Country or region

Poland

Language

Italian, English, French, German, Polish

ISSN

2083-2222

Electronic ISSN

2451-2168

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ