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Rhetoric, Politics and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2947-5147Verify ISSN ↗2947-5155Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 523 / 1434 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 551 / 1221 | 54th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 525 / 745 | 29th | Q3 |
| Communication | 383 / 541 | 29th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Rhetoric, Politics and Society is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 523 of 1434), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 551 of 1221) and Q3 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 525 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Rhetoric, Politics and Society 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 0.8, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Rhetoric, Politics and Society is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2947-5147 and its online ISSN is 2947-5155.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Rhetoric, Politics and Society has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #767 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Rhetoric, Politics and Society published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 31. 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.
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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