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Foucault Studies

Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Business Communication · Denmark · Est. 2004

ISSN1832-5203

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.167

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.457

Total Worksi

694

Total Citationsi

8,552

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.58

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Philosophy.

General Information

Country / RegionDenmark

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2004

Annual Volume~ 23 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications694

Publisher OrgCopenhagen Business School

OA Since2003

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Business Communication

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1832-5203

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

English

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

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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.

PhilosophyQ2

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Philosophy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Foucault, Power, and EthicsFeminism, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesAfrican Sexualities and LGBTQ+ IssuesPolitical Theology and SovereigntyPhilosophy and Social TheoryCritical Theory and PhilosophyPhilosophy, Ethics, and ExistentialismPsychoanalysis, Philosophy, and PoliticsNietzsche, Schopenhauer, and HegelGlobal Security and Public Health

Frequently asked questions about Foucault Studies

Is Foucault Studies a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Foucault Studies: it is indexed in 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 Foucault Studies?

Foucault Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.167.

Is Foucault Studies indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Foucault Studies is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Foucault Studies?