JOURNAL OF RELIGION

JOURNAL OF RELIGION is published by University of Chicago Press 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 Religion and Society Interactions, Biblical Studies and Interpretation and American Constitutional Law and Politics, together about 46.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Frequency: 4 issues/year ISSN: 0022-4189 E-ISSN: 1549-6538 The Journal of Religion seeks to promote excellent and innovative inquiry into the meaning and import of religion. It welcomes original contributions to scholarship on specific religious traditions through historical, anthropological, sociological, or textual interpretation. It also welcomes submissions that investigate religious difference, the concept of religion, the methods by which religion has been studied, and the ways in which the religious relates to the secular, the critical, the cultural, and the political. The Journal is especially interested in submissions that advance scholarship in specific areas of inquiry while pursuing a broad range of implications for the disciplinary and interdisciplinary study of religion. The Journal of Religion is issued by the Divinity School of The University of Chicago. View content coverage periods and institutional full-run subscription rates for The Journal of Religion. Media Study reveals advanced construction techniques and domestic layouts in Roman-Byzantine villages of Syria Read The Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research article cited in AP News June 10, 2026 Was King David a Nomad? New Theory Sparks Storm in Archaeology Was King David a Nomad? New Theory Sparks Storm Among Israeli Archaeologists Read the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research article cited in Hareetz August 31, 2021 'Royal Purple' Fabric Dated to Time of Biblical King David Found in Israel Read the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research article cited in Smithsonian Magazine March 24, 2021

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): RELIGION

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.15LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

48OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

347OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.04OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

16LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISSN

0022-4189

Electronic ISSN

1549-6538

Official links

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• Submission system ↗Publisher website