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This year it first received an Impact Factor of 0.8.</p> <p>The journal is published on behalf of American Academy of Religion (AAR), the largest scholarly society dedicated to the academic study of religion, with more than 5,000 members around the world. The AAR’s mission is to foster excellence in the academic study of religion and enhance the public understanding of religion. By publishing in the<em> JAAR</em>, you have the benefit of reaching the AAR’s membership and OUP’s audience of religious studies scholars around the world, giving your research even further reach.</p> <h3><a data-link-id="3159d896-6d72-4c28-be9c-72ed53b507b9" id="Rigorous peer review" name="Rigorous peer review"></a>Rigorous peer review</h3> <p>The <em>Journal of the American Academy of Religion</em> offers a high quality and rigorous double-anonymized peer review process for all research papers published in the journal. This ensures it maintains its rigorous standards for excellence. 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