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Dissent is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0012-3846Verify ISSN ↗1946-0910Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 541 / 744 | 27th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1139 / 1530 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994, 1986–1988, 1983, 1981, 1979, 1976–1977), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Dissent is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 541 of 744) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1139 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Dissent is indexed in the 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 27th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.138, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 26.
Dissent is published by Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas. Its print ISSN is 0012-3846 and its online ISSN is 1946-0910.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Dissent has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #532 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Dissent published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 131. 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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