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Argument and Computation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3), WoS ESCI. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1946-2166Verify ISSN ↗1946-2174Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 179 / 1221 | 85th | Q1 |
| Computational Mathematics | 85 / 212 | 60th | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 283 / 570 | 50th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 544 / 1022 | 46th | Q3 |
| Computer Science (miscellaneous) | 98 / 179 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.
Argument and Computation is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 179 of 1221), Q2 in Computational Mathematics (rank 85 of 212) and Q2 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 283 of 570), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Argument and Computation is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.350, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$900 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Argument and Computation is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1946-2166 and its online ISSN is 1946-2174.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Argument and Computation has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #263 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Argument and Computation published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 18. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 57 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (19.9%), France (13.7%) and United States (12.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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