Recerca

Universitat Jaume I · Spain · Est. 1990

ISSN2254-4135

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.24

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.182

Total Worksi

384

Total Citationsi

1,148

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.74

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Recerca pretende atraer artículos de primera calidad científica de investigadores nacionales e internacionales del campo de la filosofía y de la sociología crítica. Recerca es una revista que publica sobre temas y problemas sociales actuales , examinadas desde la sociología crítica, la teoría de la democracia, la filosofía política y la ética aplicada.

General Information

Country / RegionSpain

Primary LanguageCatalan, English, Spanish

1st Year Published1990

Frequencysemestral

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications384

Publisher OrgCarlos V

OA Since2000

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-SA

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

9/11 · 82%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Universitat Jaume I

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2254-4135

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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?

Yes

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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

149

2019

2020

116

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

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

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Philosophy

Scopus Categories

PhilosophySocial Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Social Sciences and PoliciesEconomic and Social DevelopmentLatin American socio-political dynamicsEthics and bioethics in healthcareEmployment, Labor, and Gender StudiesNeuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical InnovationsPublic Policy and GovernanceSocial Media and PoliticsHigher Education and SustainabilityLaw, Ethics, and AI Impact

Frequently asked questions about Recerca

Is Recerca a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Recerca: 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 Recerca?

Recerca 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 0.74.

Is Recerca indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

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