Oriens

Brill Academic Publishers · Netherlands · Est. 1948

ISSN1877-8372

SJR Q3✓ 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 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.125

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.244

Total Worksi

3,956

Total Citationsi

14,478

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.15

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Humanities, Multidisciplinary; Cultural Studies; Philosophy; Religious Studies.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1948

Annual Volume~ 9 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications3,956

Publisher OrgBrill

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

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4/11 · 36%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Brill Academic Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1877-8372

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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?

N/A

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

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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.

Cultural StudiesQ3

PhilosophyQ3

Religious StudiesQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Humanities, Multidisciplinary

Scopus Categories

PhilosophyCultural StudiesReligious Studies

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Archaeology and Historical StudiesIslamic Studies and HistoryHistorical and Linguistic StudiesLinguistics and Cultural StudiesEurasian Exchange NetworksLinguistics and language evolutionAfrican history and culture analysisMedieval and Classical PhilosophyCultural and Sociopolitical StudiesLanguage, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis

Frequently asked questions about Oriens

Is Oriens a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Oriens: 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 Oriens?

Oriens 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 0.15.

Is Oriens indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Oriens is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Oriens?