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JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE

OXFORD UNIV PRESS · GB

ISSN0021-969XeISSN2040-4867

SJR Q2✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.161

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.262

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Religion; History; Religious Studies; Sociology and Political Science.

General Information

Country / RegionGB

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Frequency3x/year

StatusActive

Total Publications—

Publisher OrgOxford University Press

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0021-969X / 2040-4867

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

118

157

2019

106

103

2020

2021

2022

101

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

HistoryQ2

Religious StudiesQ2

Sociology and Political ScienceQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Religion

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

American Constitutional Law and PoliticsReligion and Society InteractionsReligion, Society, and DevelopmentReformation and Early Modern ChristianityReligious Freedom and DiscriminationLegal case studies and regulationsChristian Theology and MissionCatholicism and Religious StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationDiverse Scientific and Economic Studies

Frequently asked questions about JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE

Is JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE?

JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date.

Is JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE?