Religions and Mysticism

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The Journal of Religions and Mysticism has achieved an "A" ranking in the latest evaluation (2025) by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology Commission for Scientific Journals.

The Journal of Religions and Mysticism welcomes article submissions in the following areas: history of religions, mystical literature and Sufism, religious studies and its approaches, comparative studies of religions and mysticism, religion and ethics, religion and mythology, religion and the environment, and religion and development.

All types of access to the journal's articles (such as reading, downloading, copying, printing, searching, linking to full texts, etc.) are unrestricted for everyone, provided it is for lawful, non-commercial use and includes proper citation of the article's author and the journal's name. The journal is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license.

A flowchart of the article review and acceptance process is available in the Peer  Review Process

Intellectual Property Rights: All intellectual property rights belong to the author.

This journal adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follows the law's executive regulations for preventing and Combating Academic Fraud.

• Type of journal: Scientific
• Types of articles published: Research-based scientific articles
• Publication frequency: Biannual
• Language: Bilingual – Persian with English abstracts and references
• Plagiarism detection: Uses Samim Noor software to prevent plagiarism
• Access: Open access and free to all articles
• Funding disclosure: If a sponsor or research fund supports an article, the author must disclose it within the article.
• Country of publication: Iran
• Publisher: University of Tehran
• Field of specialisation: Religions and Mysticism
• Start of publication: Autumn and Winter 1388 (2009)
• Fees:
• Article review: 4,000,000 IRR
• Article publication: 5000,000 IRR
• Review process: Closed peer-review (double-blind), by two reviewers
• Primary Review: 7 days, approximately.
• Average refereeing time: 12 weeks
• Format: Electronic
• Publication frequency: Biannual
• Evaluation grade (1404): Grade A by the Ministry of Science
• ISC Impact Factor: 0.083
  
• Print ISSN: 2228-5563
• Electronic ISSN: 2588-4816
• Journal Email: jrm@ut.ac.ir
• Website: https://jrm.ut.ac.ir
• Last updated: 9 February 2026

The Journal of Religions and Mysticism has signed a collaboration agreement with the Iranian Scientific Association of Islamic Mysticism to strengthen scientific and research cooperation.

 Important Note:
All steps of submission, review, revision, acceptance or rejection, and final publication of articles are conducted exclusively through the journal’s website.
Manual issuance of acceptance certificates is not possible.

Important

Providing an ORCID ID and an academic (or institutional) email address for all authors (especially the corresponding author) is mandatory. Authors are kindly requested to obtain a free ORCID at https://orcid.org/register and include it in the author information file. They are also asked to use their institutional email address when uploading articles.