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Thinking and Reasoning is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1354-6783Verify ISSN ↗1464-0708Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 21 / 891 | 97th | Q1 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 11 / 118 | 91st | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 26 / 169 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present (also 1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Thinking and Reasoning is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 21 of 891), Q1 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 11 of 118) and Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 26 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Thinking and Reasoning 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.924, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 61.
Thinking and Reasoning is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1354-6783 and its online ISSN is 1464-0708.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Thinking and Reasoning has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 1.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Thinking and Reasoning published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 32. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (24.1%), Italy (7.8%) and France (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (3 per 1,000 papers). 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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