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Intellectual Discourse is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by International Islamic University Malaysia.
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ISSN 0128-4878Verify ISSN ↗2289-5639Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Islamic University Malaysia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 390 / 891 | 56th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1180 / 1530 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Intellectual Discourse is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 390 of 891) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1180 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Intellectual 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
Intellectual Discourse is published by International Islamic University Malaysia. Its print ISSN is 0128-4878 and its online ISSN is 2289-5639.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Intellectual Discourse has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #274 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Intellectual Discourse published 53 papers in 2025. 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 86 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (65.9%), Türkiye (7%) and Indonesia (7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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