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Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd..
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ISSN 2947-4469Verify ISSN ↗2947-4477Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 469 / 891 | 47th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1260 / 1530 | 17th | Q4 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 618 / 745 | 17th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024 (also 2018–2022, 2013–2015), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy is Q3 in Philosophy (rank 469 of 891), Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1260 of 1530) and Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 618 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Theories, Concepts and Practices of 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 0.4, quartile Q3, 47th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy is published by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2947-4469 and its online ISSN is 2947-4477.
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.
Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #193 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy published 7 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 28. 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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