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Debats is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Institucio Alfons el Magnanim-Centre Valencia d'Estudis i d'Investigacio. Diputacio de Valencia.
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ISSN 0212-0585Verify ISSN ↗2530-3074Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institucio Alfons el Magnanim-Centre Valencia d'Estudis i d'Investigacio. Diputacio de Valencia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 762 / 1434 | 46th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1231 / 1530 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Debats is Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 762 of 1434) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1231 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Debats 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.122, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Debats is published by Institucio Alfons el Magnanim-Centre Valencia d'Estudis i d'Investigacio. Diputacio de Valencia. Its print ISSN is 0212-0585 and its online ISSN is 2530-3074.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Debats has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #284 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Debats published 7 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 44. 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 (2021–2024), authors are most often from Spain (58.2%), United States (5.8%) and United Kingdom (4.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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