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Reforma y Democracia is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), WoS SSCI. Published by Centro Latinoamericano de Administracion para el Desarrollo.
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ISSN 1315-2378Verify ISSN ↗2443-4620Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Centro Latinoamericano de Administracion para el Desarrollo
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1305 / 1530 | 14th | Q4 |
| Public Administration | 229 / 248 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Reforma y Democracia is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1305 of 1530) and Q4 in Public Administration (rank 229 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Reforma y Democracia is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 14th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.156, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 9.
Reforma y Democracia is published by Centro Latinoamericano de Administracion para el Desarrollo. Its print ISSN is 1315-2378 and its online ISSN is 2443-4620.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Reforma y Democracia has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #981 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Reforma y Democracia published 58 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 91 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (19.8%), Chile (16.3%) and Spain (14.5%).
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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