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Foucault Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), DOAJ. Published by Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Business Communication.
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ISSN 1832-5203Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Business Communication
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 276 / 891 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present (also 2004–2005), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Foucault Studies is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 276 of 891), by CiteScore 2025.
Foucault Studies 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 0.9, quartile Q2, 69th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.167, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
Foucault Studies is published by Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Business Communication. Its ISSN is 1832-5203.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Foucault Studies has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #205 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Foucault Studies published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 61. 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 15 research articles (2023–2024), authors are most often from India (16.7%), United States (13.3%) and Australia (8.3%).
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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