About this journal
Aims and scope
For nearly two decades, Politics, Religion & Ideology has provided the leading international forum for the scholarly exploration of the politics of illiberal ideologies, both religious and secular. The journal is multi-disciplinary, cutting-edge and truly international in scope, having to date received submissions from authors located in over 30 different countries.
The journal publishes critical analyses of theory and international case studies pertaining to:
• The historic and ongoing interaction between religion and politics.
• The impact of religious radicalism on public policy, political attitudes and decision-making.
• The contemporary politics of religious revival in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia.
• The historical and contemporary politics of secular 'totalising' movements, such as fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, and Ba'athism.
• Conflicts between illiberal ideologies (both religious and secular) and their opponents.
• Constructions of the sacred and the secular in political religions and other political ideologies.
• Publicly enforced (ir)religion and dissent.
• Class, gender and race in the context of political religions and religious politics.
• Memory, memory culture and the politics of memory in the context of totalitarianism and radical ideologies.
Committed to methodological and empirical eclecticism, Politics, Religion & Ideology continues to bring together leading academics and younger researchers engaged in exploring the above thematic. Directed to historians, social scientists, and policy analysts alike, the journal promotes original scholarship that demonstrates an acute awareness of the conceptual and methodological problems raised by the study of social phenomena, such as radicalism and political violence. The journal invites contributions that map common areas between different subject areas, revises conventional definitions of key concepts and, where appropriate, applies non-Eurocentric perspectives to political events, political ideas and political actors.
Peer Review Policy
All research articles submitted to Politics, Religion & Ideology undergo a rigorous process of double anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. The editorial process is overseen by the Editor-in-Chief, supported by two Editorial Assistants and an International Editorial Board consisting of 29 leading intellectuals from North America, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australasia, South Asia and the Middle East.
Endorsements for Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions:
For over a decade, Politics,Religion & Ideology has been the most vital journal for new studies on fascism, and it has now additionally become the leading forum for the analysis of the nexus between religion and radical ideology. Its focus is unique and extremely valuable for contemporary history and politics, for it has no rival as a venue for the broad and comparative treatment of radical ideologies.
-------- Professor Stanley Payne--------
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions presents cogent research in the area of extremist ideologies. Contributors to the journal include some of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of history and political science who study Fascism, Communism, Islamism, and related ideologies. Most important, the research is presented in a dispassionate style in marked contrast to the tendentious tenor that so often characterizes studies in these fields.
--------Dr George Michael--------
Since its foundation at the turn of the new millennium, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions has offered a unique forum for the comparative and interdisciplinary discussion of radical ideologies, movements and regimes. It is now widely recognised as a major source in the re-thinking of forces such as communism, fascism and Islamism, which have shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
--------Professor Roger Eatwell--------
Journal metrics
Usage
- 93K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 1.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 2.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.820 (2023) SNIP
- 0.411 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 5 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 74 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 6 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 15% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief :
Naveed S. Sheikh - Keele University, UK ( [email protected])
Associate Editors
Arif Celik - Keele University, UK ( [email protected])
Ellie Assaf - Keele University, UK ( [email protected])
Book Review Editor:
Younes Saramifar - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands ( [email protected])
Book reviews should be submitted to the Book Review Editor.
Founding Editors:
Michael Burleigh - Royal Historical Society, UK
Robert Mallet - University of Birmingham, UK
Editorial Board
Pertti Ahonen - University of Edinburgh, UK
Jeffrey M. Bale - Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA
Anne-Marie Brady - University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Emmanuel Karagiannis - King's College London, UK
Marina Cattaruzza - University of Bern, Switzerland
Kenneth Christie - Royal Road University, Canada
Costas Constantinou - University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Timothy Fitzgerald - University of Stirling, UK
Michael Freeden - University of Nottingham, UK
Hossein Godazgar - Al-Maktoum Institute, UK
Istar Gozaydin - Gediz University, Turkey
Nader Hashemi - Duke University, USA
Thomas Hegghammer - Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway
David Hoffmann - Ohio State University, USA
Humeira Iqtidar - King's College London, UK
Riva Kastoryano - Sciences-Po, France
Peter Lambert - Aberystwyth University, UK
Adrian Lyttelton - Johns Hopkins University Center, Bologna, Italy
Gus Martin - California State University, USA
Fiona McCallum - University of St. Andrews, UK
Daniel Philpott - University of Notre Dame, USA
Daniel E. Rogers - University of South Alabama, USA
Alberto Spektorowski - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Ivan Strenski - University of California, Riverside, USA
Chris Szejnmann - Loughborough University, UK
Ermin Sinanovic - Shenandoah University, USA
Scott Thomas - University of Bath, UK
Amir Weiner - Stanford University, USA
International Advisory Board
Asma Afsaruddin - Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Farish Ahmad-Noor - Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia
Uwe Backes - Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Linell Cady - Arizona State University, USA
Umit Cizre - Bilkent University, Turkey
Stuart Croft - University of Warwick, UK
Jonathan Fox - Bar Ilan University, Israel
Graeme Gill - University of Sydney, Australia
Yoram Gorlizki - University of Manchester, UK
Alex De Grand - North Carolina State University, USA
Jonathan Haslam - University of Cambridge, UK
Jeff Haynes - London Metropolitan University, UK
Robert Hefner - Boston University, USA
Ivan Ivekovic - The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Mark Juergensmeyer - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Thomas Lahusen - University of Toronto, Canada
Bruce Lawrence - Duke University, USA
Jie-Hyun Lim - Hanyang University, South Korea
Mehdi Mozaffari - University of Aarhus, Denmark
Ashish Nandy - Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India
David Ohana - Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Rosemary O’Kane - Keele University, UK
Dietrich Orlow - Boston University, USA
Eric Patterson - Georgetown University, USA
James Piscatori - University of Durham, UK
Ana Belén Soage - University of Granada, Spain
Updated 23-05-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
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News, offers and calls for papers
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Currently known as:
- Politics, Religion & Ideology (2011 - current)
Formerly known as
- Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (2000 - 2010)
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