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Global Discourse is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS ESCI. Published by Bristol University Press.
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ISSN 2043-7897Verify ISSN ↗2326-9995Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 91 / 745 | 87th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 220 / 1530 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 2010–2011), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Global Discourse is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 91 of 745) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 220 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Discourse 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.383, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
Global Discourse is published by Bristol University Press. Its print ISSN is 2043-7897 and its online ISSN is 2326-9995.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Discourse has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #258 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Global Discourse published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 77. 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 89 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (44.4%), Türkiye (11.2%) and United States (7.9%).
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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