Religion

Religion is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Philosophy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Religion and Society Interactions, Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices and Religion, Society, and Development, together about 32.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Aims and scopeJournal metrics Editorial board Religion is an internationally recognized, Thomson Reuters-listed journal, publishing original scholarly research in the comparative and interdisciplinary study of religion. Religion is committed to the publication of significant, novel research, as well as review symposia and responses. In addition, the journal includes book reviews and discussions of important venues for the publication of scholarly work in the study of religion. Religion has European and North-American editors, a multi-national Editorial Board, and is committed to publishing work from scholars of religion around the globe, including occasional translations of important papers. Religion accepts papers on all religious studies topics, including the history, literature, thought, practice, material culture, and institutions of particular religious traditions and communities from a variety of perspectives such as social scientific, cultural, cognitive, ethnographic, economic, ecological, and geographic (but excluding theology or philosophy of religion). Religion expects that authors frame their research questions and present their results in terms of relevant theoretical or methodological discussions. Purely descriptive papers are not generally accepted for publication. Papers on theory and methodology are encouraged. All publications in Religion are intended to be of interest to a wide audience of academic scholars of religion; submitted work should be presented in a manner intelligible to more than specialists. Authors are welcome to submit supplementary online material such as animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication. Information about supplementary online material Peer review policy Articles in this journal are subject to double anonymized peer review by at least two referees. More information can be found here. Read full aims and scope

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): RELIGION

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

AHCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

2.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.51LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.78LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

60OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

478OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.75OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

36.46%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

36LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0048-721X

Electronic ISSN

1096-1151

Latest issue on the website

Volume 56, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website