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Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

John Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands · Est. 2002

ISSN1569-9463

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 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

0.133

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

1,818

Total Citationsi

15,661

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.06

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture investigates political, social, and cultural processes from a linguistic/discourse-analytic perspective. It publishes works that integrate language-based approaches with disciplines focused on human interaction, including political science, international relations, social psychology, and social anthropology.

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General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2002

Annual Volume~ 63 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,818

Publisher OrgJohn Benjamins Publishing Company

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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

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1569-9463

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

N/A

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.

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Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

127

455

2017

379

2018

112

878

2019

104

2020

2021

204

2022

311

2023

2025

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.

Linguistics and LanguageQ3

CommunicationQ4

Gender StudiesQ4

Social PsychologyQ4

Sociology and Political ScienceQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Gender StudiesSociology and Political ScienceSocial PsychologyLinguistics and LanguageCommunication

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Language, Discourse, Communication StrategiesDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesLanguage, Metaphor, and CognitionMultilingual Education and PolicyMedia Studies and CommunicationSocial Media and PoliticsWireless Body Area NetworksBluetooth and Wireless Communication TechnologiesFerroelectric and Negative Capacitance DevicesMigration, Refugees, and Integration

Frequently asked questions about Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

Is Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture: it is indexed in 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 Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture?

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.133.

Is Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture is indexed in Scopus.