01568nam a22002537a 4500 9446 OCLRC 20260730103744.0 210504t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d OCLRC Loan, Fayaz Ahmad Open access religious journals - an analytical study of the DOAJ/ Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Jahangeer Iqbal Quraishi, Refhat-un-Nisa, Wasim Hussain 2018. t.ly/nnUI The main purpose of the paper is to study the publishing trends of the open access religious journals available in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The data were collected online from the Directory of Open Access Journals and quantitative method was applied for data analysis. The data were collected in December 2017 and later presented in tabular forms to reveal the findings. The findings show that 119 religious journals are registered in the DOAJ, published from the 27 countries by 114 publishing agencies in 14 languages. The maximum number of journals (21, 17.65%) is published from Indonesia in the English language (79, 66.39%) during the 2nd decade (2010-2017) of the 21st century. The results also reveal that the majority of the religious journals (88%) doesn�t charge publication fee and is peer-reviewed by the experts. Online journals, Open access journals, Electronic journals, Religious journals Quraishi, Jahangeer Iqbal Refhat-un-Nisa Hussain, Wasim ELEC 9446 9446 0 0 0 0 LRC LRC 2026-07-30 0 2026-07-30 10:37:44 2026-07-30 ELEC