Debats

Institucio Alfons el Magnanim-Centre Valencia d'Estudis i d'Investigacio. Diputacio de Valencia · Spain · Est. 1982

ISSN0212-0585eISSN2530-3074

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.122

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.107

Total Worksi

362

Total Citationsi

371

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.71

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Sobre la revista Focus i abast Debats. Revista valenciana de cultura i societat (ISSN 0212-0585 / ISSN-e 2530-3074) va nàixer el 1982 com una revista de la Institució Alfons el Magnànim (i tot seguit de la IVEI, Institució Valenciana d’Estudis i d’Investigació) de la Diputació de València amb la voluntat de promoure i actualitzar els grans debats de les ciències socials a València, donant peu a la participació d'importants figures en aquests camps.

General Information

Country / RegionSpain

Primary LanguageCatalan, English, Spanish

1st Year Published1982

Annual Volume~ 12 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications362

Publisher OrgProvincial Council of Valencia

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Institucio Alfons el Magnanim-Centre Valencia d'Estudis i d'Investigacio. Diputacio de Valencia

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0212-0585 / 2530-3074

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

Catalan, English, Spanish

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2017

2018

2019

120

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Cultural StudiesQ3

Sociology and Political ScienceQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceCultural Studies

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Social Sciences and PoliciesEmployment, Labor, and Gender StudiesCultural Industries and Urban DevelopmentMedia, Journalism, and Communication HistorySpanish History and Politics

Frequently asked questions about Debats

Is Debats a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Debats: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Debats?

Debats is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.71.

Is Debats indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Debats is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.