Material Religion is an international, peer-reviewed journal which seeks to explore how religion happens in material culture - images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture and sacred space, works of arts and mass-produced artifacts. No less important than these material forms are the many different practices that put them to work. Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction, meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy and interpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religious material culture constructs the worlds of belief. Highly visual in terms of content and in color throughout, this refereed journal bridges the world of scholarship and museum practice, and supports all those seeking, at whatever level, to understand and explain the relationships between objects, art and belief.
Material Religion was awarded the runner-up prize in CELJ's (Council of Editors of Learned Journals) competition for 'Best New Journal in 2006'.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
50K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
0.7 (2023) 5 year IF
1.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.608 (2023) SNIP
0.160 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
116 days avg. from submission to first
decision
57 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
29% acceptance rate
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However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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.
Managing Editor: Andrew Coates ([email protected]) - Duke University, USA
Editors: Sarah Dees - Iowa State University, USA Duane Jethro - University of Cape Town, South Africa Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada - Kalamazoo College, USA Katja Rakow - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Associate Editors: Pooyan Tamimi Arab - Utrecht University, The Netherlands Anna Bigelow - Stanford University, USA Alexandra Kaloyanides - University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA Candace Mixon - Reed College, Portland, USA Vivian-Lee Nyitray - University of California, USA Crispin Paine - Open University, UK Dana Rush - University of Strasbourg, France Jenna Supp-Montgomerie - University of Iowa, USA Amy Whitehead - Massey University, New Zealand
Book Reviews Editor: Candace Mixon - Reed College, Portland, USA
Editorial Advisory Board: J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu - Trinity Theological Seminary, Ghana Daan Beekers - University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lisa Bitel- University of Southern California, USA David Chidester - University of Cape Town, South Africa Carolyn Dean - UC Santa Cruz, USA Erika Doss - University of Notre Dame, USA Jennifer Hughes - University of California, Riverside, USA Tim Insoll - Manchester University, UK Richard Jaffe - Duke University, USA Webb Keane - University of Michigan, USA Laurel Kendall - American Museum of Natural History, USA Lily Kong - Singapore Management University, Singapore Birgit Meyer - University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Daniel Miller - University College London, UK David Morgan - Duke University, USA Robert Nelson - Yale University, USA S. Brent Plate - Hamilton College, USA Patrick Polk - University of California Los Angeles, USA Inken Prohl - University of Heidelberg, Germany Sally Promey - Yale University, USA Allen F. Roberts - UCLA, USA Jeremy Stolow - Concordia University, Canada Asonzeh Ukah - University of Bayreuth, Germany Isaac Weiner- Ohio State University, USA Angela Zito - New York University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Indexed/abstracted in:
De Gruyter Saur: IBZ Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes; und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur;Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur; EBSCOhost: Academic Search Alumni Edition: Academic Search Complete; Academic Search Elite; Academic Search Premier; Anthropological Index Online; Art & Architecture Complete; Art & Architecture Index; Art Abstracts; Art Full Text; Art Index; Art Source; ATLA Religion (American Theological Library Association);Biography Index: Past and Present; Book Review Digest Plus; Current Abstracts; Index Islamicus Online; MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association); OmniFile Full Text Mega; OmniFile Full Text Select; SocINDEX; SocINDEX with Full Text; TOC Premier; Scopus; Gale: Academic OneFile; Book Review Index; InfoTrac Custom; MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association); Religion and Philosophy Collection; National Library of Medicine; PubMed; OCLC; Anthropological Index Online; CSA Sociological Abstracts; Selective; ProQuest; ARTbibliographies Modern, Selective; British Humanities Index; CSA Social Services Abstracts; CSA Sociological Abstracts; Design and Applied Arts Index; Index Islamicus Online; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; MLA International Bibliography; Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; Royal Anthropological Institute; Anthropological Index Online; Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Current Contents; Web of Science.
Open access
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Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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