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Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1569-9463Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 293 / 1137 | 74th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 348 / 1221 | 71st | Q2 |
| Gender Studies | 106 / 233 | 54th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 768 / 1530 | 49th | Q3 |
| Communication | 278 / 541 | 48th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 239 / 315 | 24th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2018–2023), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 293 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 348 of 1221) and Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 106 of 233), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2, 74th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 1569-9463.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #600 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 127. 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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