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Critical Horizons is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Maney Publishing.
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ISSN 1440-9917Verify ISSN ↗1568-5160Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 255 / 891 | 71st | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 929 / 1530 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Critical Horizons is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 255 of 891) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 929 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Critical Horizons 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 1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.163, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Critical Horizons is published by Maney Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1440-9917 and its online ISSN is 1568-5160.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Critical Horizons has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 0.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #181 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Critical Horizons published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 39. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Italy (15.9%), Australia (12.1%) and Belgium (11%).
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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