Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies
ReOrient
ISSN 2055-5601 · eISSN 2055-561X · Pluto Journals · United Kingdom
ReOrient: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 24 weeks (community reports); 35 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ReOrient is published by Pluto Journals. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Islamic Studies and History, Islamic Thought and Society Studies and Religion and Society Interactions, together about 34.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
ReOrient is an interdisciplinary journal that has no geographical focus but is dedicated to rethinking those entities and events considered to lie outside the conceptuality of Western hegemony – culturally, geopolitically and philosophically. Editorial Board EDITORS. Sayyid, University of Leeds, UKASSOCIATE EDITORSUzma Jamil, McGill University, CanadaSantiago Slabodsky, Hofstra University, USAAbdoolKarim Vakil, Kings College London, UKEDITORIAL BOARDYasin Aktay, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, TurkeySchirin Amir-Moazami, Freie Universität, GermanyWarren Chin, Kings College London, UKNadia Fadil, KU Leuven, BelgiumJuliane Hammer, University of North Carolina, USABarnor Hesse, Northwestern University, USAAdnan Husain, Queen’s University, CanadaRuth Mas, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Society, Freie Universität, GermanyAnne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, USAShaireen Rasheed, Long Island University, USASherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College, USABOOK REVIEW EDITORShvetal Vyas Pare, Flinders University, AustraliaINTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARDTalal Asad, City University of New York, USAHatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, USARichard W. Bulliet, Columbia University, USAGalip Dalay, Al Sharq Forum, TurkeyFarid Esack, University of Johannesburg, South AfricaBrian Klug, St Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford, UKKarima Laachir, Australian National University, AustraliaElena Arigita Maza, University of Granada, SpainElla Shohat, New York University, USABoaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, PortugalJasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Instructions for Authors Please see the submission guidelines here. Contact For editorial inquiries: reorient@leeds.ac.ukFor book reviews: Shvetal Vyas Pare, shvetalvyas@gmail.comFor publishing inquiries: evek@plutojournals.com Publication Information ReOrient is an international journal published biannually every spring/summer and autumn/winter. The journal is Open Access and the Open Access statement, Open Access license terms, copyright terms as well as a statement on its absolute lack of author charges can be found here. The journal became Open Access on 1 January 2021 and is published open access on ScienceOpen. All journal material published prior to 1 January 2021 is also published, Open Access on ScienceOpen here. This means the reuse rights of published material is all under the open CC BY 4.0 license as stated here. Ethics Statement This journal follows Pluto Journals’ Ethics
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Islamic Studies and HistorySocial Sciences20.1%
- Islamic Thought and Society StudiesArts and Humanities8.5%
- Religion and Society InteractionsSocial Sciences5.9%
- South Asian Studies and DiasporaArts and Humanities5.7%
- Media Discourse and Social AnalysisSocial Sciences5.7%
- Qur’anic Interpretation StudiesSocial Sciences5.1%
- Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences4.6%
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, GenderSocial Sciences4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | Q2 | 235/760 | 69th |
| Philosophy | Q2 | 339/891 | 62nd |
| Cultural Studies | Q2 | 585/1434 | 59th |
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
ScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.16LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.26LetPub ·
- h-index
- 12OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 18OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.21OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 253 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 11 | 45 |
| 2025 | 35 | 35 | 101 |
| 2024 | 24 | 24 | 71 |
| 2023 | 10 | 10 | 80 |
| 2022 | 26 | 26 | 76 |
| 2021 | 15 | 15 | 54 |
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 24 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 24 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY |
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
- Pluto Journals
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2055-5601
- Electronic ISSN
- 2055-561X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ReOrient
How long does peer review take at ReOrient?
Authors report an average review time of about 24 weeks. 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.
Which databases index ReOrient?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ReOrient is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is ReOrient open access, and what is the APC?
ReOrient is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; 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: .