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Reforma y Democracia

Centro Latinoamericano de Administracion para el Desarrollo · Venezuela · Est. 2016

ISSN1315-2378eISSN2443-4620

SJR Q4✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

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

SJR Scorei

0.156

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.088

Total Worksi

252

Total Citationsi

352

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.32

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Political Science; Public Administration; Sociology and Political Science.

General Information

Country / RegionVenezuela

Primary LanguageSpanish

1st Year Published2016

Annual Volume~ 29 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications252

Region🌍 Global South

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Centro Latinoamericano de Administracion para el Desarrollo

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1315-2378 / 2443-4620

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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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?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

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

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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.

Public AdministrationQ4

Sociology and Political ScienceQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Political SciencePublic Administration

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political SciencePublic Administration

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Public Policy and GovernanceSocial Sciences and PoliciesAdministrative Law and GovernanceLocal Government Finance and DecentralizationE-Government and Public ServicesEducational and Organizational DevelopmentPublic Policy and Administration ResearchFinance, Taxation, and GovernanceInnovative Approaches in Technology and Social DevelopmentBusiness, Innovation, and Economy

Frequently asked questions about Reforma y Democracia

Is Reforma y Democracia a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Reforma y Democracia: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, 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 Reforma y Democracia?

Reforma y Democracia 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 0.32.

Is Reforma y Democracia indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Reforma y Democracia is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Reforma y Democracia?