Islamophobia Studies Journal

Islamophobia Studies Journal is published by Pluto Journals. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Media Discourse and Social Analysis, Migration, Refugees, and Integration and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, together about 49% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal is produced in collaboration with the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the Center for Race and Gender at Berkeley, a research unit dedicated to the systematic study of Othering Islam and Muslims. ISJ is an interdisciplinary and multi-lingual academic journal that encourages submissions that theorizes the historical, political, economic, and cultural phenomenon of Islamophobia in relation to the construction, representation, and articulation of “Otherness.” ISJ is an open scholarly exchange, exploring new approaches, methodologies, and contemporary issues.The Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project (IRDP) focuses on a systematic and empirical approach to the study of Islamophobia and its impact on Muslim communities. Today, Muslims in the U.S., parts of Europe, and around the world have been transformed into a demonized and feared global “other,” subjected to legal, social, and political discrimination. Even at the highest levels of political discourse, the 2008 U.S. Presidential elections, Islamophobia took center stage as a sizeable number of Americans expressed fear that Barack Obama, the first African American president, is somehow a closet Muslim. Newspaper articles, tv shows, books, popular movies, political debates, and cultural conflicts over immigration and security produce ample evidence of the stigmatization of Islam within dominant culture. Editorial Board Editorial BoardHatem Bazian, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, University of California, Berkeley, USAMaxwell Leung, Grinnell College and California College of the Arts, USAMunir Jiwa, Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union, USARabab Abdulhadi, Race and Resistance Studies, San Francisco State University, USARamon Grosfoguel, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USAEditorial staff membersPaula Thompson, Copy Editor, University of California, Berkeley, USARhonda Itaoui, Copy Editor, University of California, Berkeley, USAUmer Mahmood, Marketing and Circulation.Hani Kharufeh, Design and IT. Instructions for Authors Please see the submission guidelines here.The ISJ encourages submissions that closely interrogate the ideological, discursive, and epistemological frameworks employed in processes of “Otherness”—the complex social, political, economic, gender, sexual, and religious forces that are intimately linked in the historical production of the modern world from the dominance of the colonial/imperial n

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Impact

h-index

18OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

42OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.77OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Average review time (community reports)

about 32 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 32 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Pluto Journals

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

ISSN

2325-8381

Electronic ISSN

2325-839X

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