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Argumentation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.2), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 0920-427XVerify ISSN ↗1572-8374Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 71 / 891 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 156 / 1221 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.2.
Argumentation is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 71 of 891) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 156 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Argumentation is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.618, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Argumentation is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 0920-427X and its online ISSN is 1572-8374.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Argumentation has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #188 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Argumentation published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 55. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (14.1%), Netherlands (12.2%) and Poland (12.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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