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Journals for “Islamic Studies and History”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Die Welt des Islams Brill · The Netherlands | 100% | 49.7 | #19,687 | 190 | 26% | Not recorded |
| 2 | Islamic Law and Society Brill · The Netherlands | 90% | 45.0 | #23,510 | 107 | 34% | Not recorded |
| 3 | Middle Eastern Literatures Routledge · United Kingdom | 92% | 35.3 | #33,660 | 111 | 27% | Not recorded |
| 4 | Hawwa Brill · The Netherlands | 84% | 41.6 | #26,647 | 77 | 30% | Not recorded |
| 5 | Journal of Arabic Literature Brill · The Netherlands | 81% | 39.0 | #29,430 | 144 | 31% | Not recorded |
| 6 | An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences) An-Najah National University · DOAJ | 78% | 42.9 | #25,391 | 174 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Journal of Sufi Studies Brill · The Netherlands | 85% | 29.3 | #41,301 | 74 | 19% | Not recorded |
| 8 | Journal of Shiʿite Islamic studies/Journal of Shi'a Islamic studies The Islamic College · United Kingdom | 88% | 22.2 | #50,121 | 77 | 0% | Not recorded |
| 9 | Journal of Persianate Studies Brill · The Netherlands | 79% | 33.2 | #36,245 | 70 | 39% | Not recorded |
| 10 | Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies Indiana University Press · United States | 78% | 30.9 | #39,300 | 113 | 2% | Not recorded |
| 11 | Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations Routledge · United Kingdom | 67% | 50.6 | #19,097 | 195 | 16% | Not recorded |
| 12 | Ilahiyat Studies Türkiye | 75% | 31.6 | #38,397 | 74 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 13 | British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Routledge · United Kingdom | 61% | 57.1 | #14,743 | 421 | 28% | Not recorded |
| 14 | Sociology of Islam Brill · The Netherlands | 70% | 32.9 | #36,607 | 66 | 12% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Contemporary Islam Springer Science+Business Media · The Netherlands | 57% | 56.2 | #15,324 | 143 | 45% | Not recorded |
| 16 | ISLAMIC STUDIES Institute of Islamic Research · Pakistan | 65% | 38.5 | #29,963 | 143 | 43% | Not recorded |
| 17 | Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam United Kingdom | 70% | 27.3 | #43,823 | 64 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 18 | Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Indiana University Press · United States | 66% | 35.5 | #33,420 | 278 | 3% | Not recorded |
| 19 | American Journal of Islam and Society International Institute of Islamic Thought · United States · DOAJ | 56% | 51.9 | #18,144 | 232 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 20 | Anthropology of the Middle East Berghahn Books · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 62% | 38.7 | #29,734 | 81 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Journal of Middle East Women s Studies Indiana University Press · United States | 58% | 44.7 | #23,786 | 202 | 7% | Not recorded |
| 22 | Iran Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 58% | 42.4 | #25,913 | 88 | 26% | Not recorded |
| 23 | Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies University of Oslo Library · Norway | 63% | 33.0 | #36,530 | 179 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 24 | ReOrient Pluto Journals · United Kingdom · DOAJ | 61% | 35.4 | #33,653 | 109 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 25 | Australian Journal of Islamic Studies · DOAJ | 62% | 33.2 | #36,231 | 112 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Iranian Studies Cambridge University Press · United States | 52% | 51.2 | #18,623 | 353 | 51% | Not recorded |
| 27 | Journal of Islamic Philosophy Philosophy Documentation Center · United States | 64% | 29.6 | #40,870 | 51 | 12% | Not recorded |
| 28 | Bustan The Middle East Book Review Penn State University Press · The Netherlands | 52% | 51.6 | #18,353 | 147 | 23% | Not recorded |
| 29 | Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East Duke University Press · United States | 49% | 56.9 | #14,847 | 273 | 5% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Philological Encounters Brill · The Netherlands | 61% | 31.4 | #38,600 | 82 | 54% | Not recorded |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
What this is not: the ITS Journal Score is not a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore or SJR, and this site does not say whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed. Always confirm aims and scope, indexing, peer review and fees on the journal's own website before you submit.