Journal of Early Modern Christianity

Journal of Early Modern Christianity is published by Walter de Gruyter and is in Zone 4 of Philosophy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Reformation and Early Modern Christianity, Historical Influence and Diplomacy and Early Modern Women Writers, together about 52.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal The Journal of Early Modern Christianity (JEMC) is published with our partner Refo500 and its academic department RefoRC. It intends to contribute to interdisciplinary, interconfessional, and comparative research on early modern Christianity. The journal bears out its interdisciplinary character by including a variety of relevant disciplines, such as church history, social history, cultural history, art history, literary history, history of ideas, history of music and archeology. Its interconfessional approach means that it includes contributions covering the major confessions of early modern Christianity, as well as Christian minorities and dissenters that were not recognized by any of these mainstream confessional traditions. JEMC also incorporates topics concerning the relationship between Christianity and other religions in the early modern period (Judaism, Islam, etc.). The journal’s comparative approach gives expression to a broader intellectual ambition of stimulating research that is not restricted to a local or national scope, but takes advantage of the rich theoretical possibilities of comparing and synthesizing at a European, international, and even global level. In terms of chronology, the Journal primarily covers the period from 1450 to 1700. Subscription to the Journal of Early Modern Christianity is part of the membership benefits of RefoRC. For further details visit www.reforc.com. Complete Archive AccessAs of 2026, all De Gruyter journal subscriptions include access to every issue, from Volume 1, Issue 1 through to today, meaning subscribers can access even more research at no additional cost.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Wim FrançoisPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

0.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

0.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

0.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.22LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

6OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

2OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.11OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

37.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

19LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISSN

2196-6648

Electronic ISSN

2196-6656

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Special issues ↗Publisher website