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Journal of Deliberative Democracy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), DOAJ. Published by International Association for Public Participation.
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ISSN 2634-0488Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Association for Public Participation
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 472 / 1530 | 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 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 472 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy 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 2.7, 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 0.506, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy is published by International Association for Public Participation. Its ISSN is 2634-0488.
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.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 2.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #151 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 45. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.6%), Germany (13.2%) and United Kingdom (6.9%).
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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