Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society

ISSN 2829-8373 · eISSN 2829-8624 · Universitas Negeri Semarang · Indonesia

Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society: fully open access; no APC; review about 23 weeks (community reports); acceptance rate 65% (journal website); 8 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.

The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2024 (Volume 3, Issue 2): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartileQ1Religious Studies · rank 92/760 · 87th percentile
Review timeabout 23 weeksCommunity average
APCNo APCFully open access
Acceptance65%From the journal's website
Articles per year82025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society is published by Universitas Negeri Semarang. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Religious Freedom and Discrimination, Indonesian Legal and Regulatory Studies and Family and Matrimonial Law, together about 45.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society (ISSN Print: 2829-8373 ISSN Online: 2829-8624) is an open access double blind peer reveiwed journal published by Faculty of Law Universitas Negeri Semarang and managed by Moslem and Christian Community at Faculty of Law Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia. The Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society (CIILS) is committed to providing a forum for academics, researchers, scholars, students, and religious communities around the world. The CIILS is also dedicated to publish an innovative research on and study of the interactions that take place within and between religious communities in the law and policy context by multidisciplinary perspectives including politics, economics, theology, psychology, and other related topics. By fostering conversation, the CIILS hopes to increase religious literacy, contribute to the field of interreligious hermeneutics, and address the issues surrounding interreligious relations, dialogue, theology, and communication both National (Indonesia) and Global context.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

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

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Indonesia 14, Australia 2, Malaysia 2, Netherlands 1, Saudi Arabia 1 (21 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Religious Freedom and DiscriminationSocial Sciences20.1%
  2. Indonesian Legal and Regulatory StudiesSocial Sciences14.2%
  3. Family and Matrimonial LawSocial Sciences11.2%
  4. Marriage and Family DynamicsSocial Sciences11.2%
  5. Legal and Policy Analysis in IndonesiaSocial Sciences8.9%
  6. Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, GenderSocial Sciences3.6%
  7. Legal and Social Justice StudiesSocial Sciences3%
  8. Legal Studies and PoliciesSocial Sciences2.4%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

SubjectQuartileRankPercentile
Religious StudiesQ192/76087th
LawQ2484/116258th
Sociology and Political ScienceQ2743/153051st

Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub

Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

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

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Metrics

Impact metrics and publication volume

Impact

CiteScore 2026-06
1.5LetPub ·
SJR 2026-06
0.18LetPub ·
SNIP 2026-06
0.39LetPub ·
h-index
3OpenAlex ·
i10-index
0OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
0.62OpenAlex ·
Share of gold OA articles
0%LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 66 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
2026101012
2025887
2024111116
2023202011
202217173

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.

Review & acceptance

Review time and acceptance

Average review time (community reports)
about 23 weeksLetPub ·
Acceptance rate (publisher)
65%Publisher website ·
Submission to first decision
60 daysPublisher website ·
Peer review
Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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.

Fees & open access

APC and open-access policy

Fully open accessLetPub

Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
LetPubNo APCNo—

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Profile

Publication details and official links

Publisher
Universitas Negeri Semarang
Country or region
Indonesia
Language
English, Indonesian
ISSN
2829-8373
Electronic ISSN
2829-8624
Latest issue on the website
Volume 3, Issue 2 (2024)
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society

How long does peer review take at Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society?

Authors report an average review time of about 23 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 65%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.

Where are the editorial board members of Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society based?

Of the 21 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Indonesia (14), Australia (2) and Malaysia (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.

Which databases index Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society is indexed in Scopus.

Is Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society open access, and what is the APC?

Contemporary Issues on Interfaith Law and Society is a fully open-access journal. It charges no article processing charge.

Sources and updates

The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .