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.

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartileQ2Religious Studies · rank 235/760 · 69th percentile
Review timeabout 24 weeksCommunity average
APCNo APCDiamond open access (no APC)
Acceptance—No reports yet
Articles per year352025 · OpenAlex count

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

  1. Islamic Studies and HistorySocial Sciences20.1%
  2. Islamic Thought and Society StudiesArts and Humanities8.5%
  3. Religion and Society InteractionsSocial Sciences5.9%
  4. South Asian Studies and DiasporaArts and Humanities5.7%
  5. Media Discourse and Social AnalysisSocial Sciences5.7%
  6. Qur’anic Interpretation StudiesSocial Sciences5.1%
  7. Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences4.6%
  8. 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

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

SubjectQuartileRankPercentile
Religious StudiesQ2235/76069th
PhilosophyQ2339/89162nd
Cultural StudiesQ2585/143459th

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

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
2026111145
20253535101
2024242471
2023101080
2022262676
2021151554

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

Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ

Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
DOAJNo APCNoCC 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

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: .