Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Michigan State University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1094-8392Verify ISSN ↗1534-5238Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 399 / 1137 | 64th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 484 / 1221 | 60th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 961 / 1530 | 37th | Q3 |
| Communication | 346 / 541 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 399 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 484 of 1221) and Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 961 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.153, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 21.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs is published by Michigan State University Press. Its print ISSN is 1094-8392 and its online ISSN is 1534-5238.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #535 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 86. 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 42 research articles (2023–2025), authors are most often from United States (95.2%), China (2.4%) and Canada (2.4%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.