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Contemporary Buddhism

Routledge · United Kingdom · Est. 2000

ISSN1463-9947eISSN1476-7953

SJR Q2✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (AHCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.166

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.125

Total Worksi

488

Total Citationsi

7,061

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.48

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Contemporary Buddhism is an international, interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles on the current and future state of Buddhism. It encourages submissions from the social sciences and humanities, including anthropology, gender studies, and political science, and serves as a critical platform for exploring the multifaceted dimensions of Buddhism in modern contexts.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2000

Annual Volume~ 13 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications488

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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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?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1463-9947 / 1476-7953

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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

2019

116

2020

2021

2022

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.

PhilosophyQ2

Religious StudiesQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

PhilosophyReligion

Scopus Categories

PhilosophyReligious Studies

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Indian and Buddhist StudiesAsian Geopolitics and EthnographyChinese history and philosophyMindfulness and Compassion InterventionsSoutheast Asian Sociopolitical StudiesAnthropological Studies and InsightsVietnamese History and Culture StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationWar, Ethics, and JustificationAsian Studies and History

Frequently asked questions about Contemporary Buddhism

Is Contemporary Buddhism a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Contemporary Buddhism: 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 Contemporary Buddhism?

Contemporary Buddhism 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. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.48.

Is Contemporary Buddhism indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Contemporary Buddhism is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.