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Public Reason is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), DOAJ. Published by Universitatea din Bucuresti.
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ISSN 2065-7285Verify ISSN ↗2065-8958Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universitatea din Bucuresti
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 790 / 891 | 11th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1469 / 1530 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Public Reason is Q4 in Philosophy (rank 790 of 891) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1469 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Reason 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 11th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
Public Reason is published by Universitatea din Bucuresti. Its print ISSN is 2065-7285 and its online ISSN is 2065-8958.
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.
Public Reason has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #698 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
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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