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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by University of California Press.
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ISSN 2333-9489Verify ISSN ↗2333-9497Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 452 / 1137 | 60th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 541 / 1221 | 55th | Q2 |
| Communication | 378 / 541 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 452 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 541 of 1221) and Q3 in Communication (rank 378 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.211, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research is published by University of California Press. Its print ISSN is 2333-9489 and its online ISSN is 2333-9497.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #411 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 56. 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.
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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