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Democratic Theory

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SCImago
Q2
WOS
Q3
Impact factor
0.9
SJR
0.275
CiteScore
1.3
Categories
Philosophy
Sociology and Political Science
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
Years of issue
2014-2025
journal names
Democratic Theory
DEMOCR THEORY
Publications
186
Citations
1 073
h-index
17
Publications
84
Citations
901
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 organizations
University of Canberra
University of Canberra (8 publications)
Goethe University Frankfurt
Goethe University Frankfurt (3 publications)
University of Canberra
University of Canberra (4 publications)
University of Southampton
University of Southampton (2 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (17 publications)
Australia (13 publications)
Germany (10 publications)
USA (10 publications)
United Kingdom (8 publications)
Germany (6 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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Democratic Theory
34 citations, 3.17%
Frontiers in Political Science
20 citations, 1.86%
Zeitschrift fur Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
19 citations, 1.77%
East European Politics
19 citations, 1.77%
Politics
16 citations, 1.49%
Representation
16 citations, 1.49%
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
15 citations, 1.4%
Constellations
11 citations, 1.03%
Political Studies Review
10 citations, 0.93%
Policy Studies
10 citations, 0.93%
Political Studies
9 citations, 0.84%
Politische Vierteljahresschrift
8 citations, 0.75%
Contemporary Political Theory
7 citations, 0.65%
Contemporary Politics
7 citations, 0.65%
European Political Science Review
7 citations, 0.65%
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
6 citations, 0.56%
Javnost
6 citations, 0.56%
The Journal of Legislative Studies
5 citations, 0.47%
European Journal of Political Theory
5 citations, 0.47%
Politics and Governance
5 citations, 0.47%
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
5 citations, 0.47%
British Journal of Politics and International Relations
5 citations, 0.47%
Government and Opposition
5 citations, 0.47%
BMC Public Health
5 citations, 0.47%
European Journal of Social Theory
5 citations, 0.47%
SSRN Electronic Journal
5 citations, 0.47%
Open Research Europe
5 citations, 0.47%
Advances in Human Services and Public Health
5 citations, 0.47%
American Political Science Review
4 citations, 0.37%
Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy
4 citations, 0.37%
Futures
4 citations, 0.37%
Social Science and Medicine
4 citations, 0.37%
Philosophy and Social Criticism
4 citations, 0.37%
Acta Politica
4 citations, 0.37%
Political Geography
4 citations, 0.37%
Parliamentary Affairs
4 citations, 0.37%
Political Psychology
4 citations, 0.37%
European Political Science
4 citations, 0.37%
European Journal of Political Research
4 citations, 0.37%
Politics in Central Europe
4 citations, 0.37%
Journal of Common Market Studies
4 citations, 0.37%
Societies
4 citations, 0.37%
Sociološki Pregled
4 citations, 0.37%
Anarchism and Social Revolution
4 citations, 0.37%
Big Data and Society
3 citations, 0.28%
Communication Theory
3 citations, 0.28%
Political Research Quarterly
3 citations, 0.28%
The International Journal of Qualitative Methods
3 citations, 0.28%
Contemporary Italian Politics
3 citations, 0.28%
Urban Book Series
3 citations, 0.28%
Social Movement Studies
3 citations, 0.28%
Asian Politics and Policy
3 citations, 0.28%
International Journal of Business and Society
3 citations, 0.28%
Cities
3 citations, 0.28%
European Educational Research Journal
3 citations, 0.28%
International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
3 citations, 0.28%
Democratization
3 citations, 0.28%
Political Theory
3 citations, 0.28%
European Politics and Society
3 citations, 0.28%
Springer Geography
3 citations, 0.28%
Sustainability
3 citations, 0.28%
Education, Citizenship and Social Justice
3 citations, 0.28%
Swiss Political Science Review
3 citations, 0.28%
Third World Quarterly
3 citations, 0.28%
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
3 citations, 0.28%
Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
3 citations, 0.28%
Journal of Deliberative Democracy
3 citations, 0.28%
Professionelle Unterrichtswahrnehmung im sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachunterricht
3 citations, 0.28%
The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy
3 citations, 0.28%
European Policy Analysis
2 citations, 0.19%
Australian Journal of Public Administration
2 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Politics
2 citations, 0.19%
Environmental Policy and Governance
2 citations, 0.19%
Nonprofit Policy Forum
2 citations, 0.19%
Perspectives on Politics
2 citations, 0.19%
West European Politics
2 citations, 0.19%
Citizenship, Social and Economics Education
2 citations, 0.19%
Current Sociology
2 citations, 0.19%
Political Communication
2 citations, 0.19%
Politikon
2 citations, 0.19%
Frontiers in Education
2 citations, 0.19%
Critical Review
2 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Political Science Education
2 citations, 0.19%
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
2 citations, 0.19%
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
2 citations, 0.19%
Review of Social Economy
2 citations, 0.19%
Ethnopolitics
2 citations, 0.19%
Policy and Politics
2 citations, 0.19%
Irish Political Studies
2 citations, 0.19%
Social Sciences
2 citations, 0.19%
Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
2 citations, 0.19%
Review of International Studies
2 citations, 0.19%
Journal of International Political Theory
2 citations, 0.19%
Public Organization Review
2 citations, 0.19%
Convergence
2 citations, 0.19%
Social Science Information
2 citations, 0.19%
Social Theory and Health
2 citations, 0.19%
Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies
2 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Risk Research
2 citations, 0.19%
Critical Sociology
2 citations, 0.19%
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Taylor & Francis
210 citations, 19.57%
Springer Nature
174 citations, 16.22%
SAGE
132 citations, 12.3%
Wiley
76 citations, 7.08%
Cambridge University Press
59 citations, 5.5%
Oxford University Press
52 citations, 4.85%
Elsevier
45 citations, 4.19%
Berghahn Books
34 citations, 3.17%
Frontiers Media S.A.
29 citations, 2.7%
Walter de Gruyter
17 citations, 1.58%
MDPI
17 citations, 1.58%
Emerald
16 citations, 1.49%
IGI Global
7 citations, 0.65%
F1000 Research
6 citations, 0.56%
Cogitatio
6 citations, 0.56%
University of Chicago Press
4 citations, 0.37%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
4 citations, 0.37%
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
4 citations, 0.37%
Bristol University Press
4 citations, 0.37%
Duke University Press
3 citations, 0.28%
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
3 citations, 0.28%
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
3 citations, 0.28%
SciELO
3 citations, 0.28%
OpenEdition
3 citations, 0.28%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
3 citations, 0.28%
University of Westminster Press
3 citations, 0.28%
EDP Sciences
2 citations, 0.19%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2 citations, 0.19%
Institut fur Asienkunde
2 citations, 0.19%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2 citations, 0.19%
BMJ
2 citations, 0.19%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
2 citations, 0.19%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
2 citations, 0.19%
Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH
2 citations, 0.19%
Japanese Political Science Association
2 citations, 0.19%
IOS Press
1 citation, 0.09%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
1 citation, 0.09%
Edinburgh University Press
1 citation, 0.09%
Philosophy Documentation Center, Saint Louis University
1 citation, 0.09%
Associazone culturale Pragma
1 citation, 0.09%
Index Copernicus
1 citation, 0.09%
PeerJ
1 citation, 0.09%
Masaryk University Press
1 citation, 0.09%
American Public Health Association
1 citation, 0.09%
University of Montreal
1 citation, 0.09%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 citation, 0.09%
S. Karger AG
1 citation, 0.09%
Infra-M Academic Publishing House
1 citation, 0.09%
National Library of Serbia
1 citation, 0.09%
Center for Crisis Society Studies
1 citation, 0.09%
Scientific Research Publishing
1 citation, 0.09%
IntechOpen
1 citation, 0.09%
Intellect
1 citation, 0.09%
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University of Canberra
8 publications, 4.3%
Goethe University Frankfurt
3 publications, 1.61%
Humboldt University of Berlin
2 publications, 1.08%
University of Zurich
2 publications, 1.08%
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland
2 publications, 1.08%
University of Southampton
2 publications, 1.08%
University of Sydney
2 publications, 1.08%
Hamburg University
2 publications, 1.08%
University of Amsterdam
2 publications, 1.08%
University of Delhi
1 publication, 0.54%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
1 publication, 0.54%
Ghent University
1 publication, 0.54%
Uppsala University
1 publication, 0.54%
University of Helsinki
1 publication, 0.54%
University of Turku
1 publication, 0.54%
University College London
1 publication, 0.54%
University of Warwick
1 publication, 0.54%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 0.54%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 0.54%
Ã…bo Akademi University
1 publication, 0.54%
Aarhus University
1 publication, 0.54%
King's College London
1 publication, 0.54%
National Taiwan University
1 publication, 0.54%
Yale University
1 publication, 0.54%
Johns Hopkins University
1 publication, 0.54%
Scuola Normale Superiore
1 publication, 0.54%
Victoria University of Wellington
1 publication, 0.54%
Deakin University
1 publication, 0.54%
James Cook University
1 publication, 0.54%
Australian Catholic University
1 publication, 0.54%
Northwestern University
1 publication, 0.54%
Colorado State University
1 publication, 0.54%
Harvard University
1 publication, 0.54%
New York University
1 publication, 0.54%
Tufts University
1 publication, 0.54%
Aberystwyth University
1 publication, 0.54%
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
1 publication, 0.54%
University of Notre Dame
1 publication, 0.54%
Georgia State University
1 publication, 0.54%
Dublin City University
1 publication, 0.54%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 0.54%
Simon Fraser University
1 publication, 0.54%
University of British Columbia
1 publication, 0.54%
Queen's University at Kingston
1 publication, 0.54%
Helmut Schmidt University
1 publication, 0.54%
Leiden University
1 publication, 0.54%
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
1 publication, 0.54%
Brown University
1 publication, 0.54%
Vienna University of Economics and Business
1 publication, 0.54%
University of Vienna
1 publication, 0.54%
University for Continuing Education Krems
1 publication, 0.54%
Ryukoku University
1 publication, 0.54%
Open University of the Netherlands
1 publication, 0.54%
Lakehead University
1 publication, 0.54%
Quinnipiac University
1 publication, 0.54%
University of York
1 publication, 0.54%
University of São Paulo
1 publication, 0.54%
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University of Canberra
4 publications, 4.76%
Humboldt University of Berlin
2 publications, 2.38%
University of Southampton
2 publications, 2.38%
University of Amsterdam
2 publications, 2.38%
University of Delhi
1 publication, 1.19%
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
1 publication, 1.19%
Ghent University
1 publication, 1.19%
University of Helsinki
1 publication, 1.19%
University College London
1 publication, 1.19%
University of Oxford
1 publication, 1.19%
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland
1 publication, 1.19%
University of Cambridge
1 publication, 1.19%
Ã…bo Akademi University
1 publication, 1.19%
Aarhus University
1 publication, 1.19%
King's College London
1 publication, 1.19%
National Taiwan University
1 publication, 1.19%
University of Sydney
1 publication, 1.19%
Scuola Normale Superiore
1 publication, 1.19%
Victoria University of Wellington
1 publication, 1.19%
Deakin University
1 publication, 1.19%
Northwestern University
1 publication, 1.19%
Harvard University
1 publication, 1.19%
New York University
1 publication, 1.19%
Tufts University
1 publication, 1.19%
Aberystwyth University
1 publication, 1.19%
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
1 publication, 1.19%
University of Notre Dame
1 publication, 1.19%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 1.19%
Simon Fraser University
1 publication, 1.19%
University of British Columbia
1 publication, 1.19%
Queen's University at Kingston
1 publication, 1.19%
Hamburg University
1 publication, 1.19%
Goethe University Frankfurt
1 publication, 1.19%
Leiden University
1 publication, 1.19%
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
1 publication, 1.19%
Brown University
1 publication, 1.19%
University of Vienna
1 publication, 1.19%
University for Continuing Education Krems
1 publication, 1.19%
Ryukoku University
1 publication, 1.19%
Open University of the Netherlands
1 publication, 1.19%
Lakehead University
1 publication, 1.19%
Quinnipiac University
1 publication, 1.19%
University of York
1 publication, 1.19%
University of São Paulo
1 publication, 1.19%
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USA, 17, 9.14%
USA
17 publications, 9.14%
Australia, 13, 6.99%
Australia
13 publications, 6.99%
Germany, 10, 5.38%
Germany
10 publications, 5.38%
United Kingdom, 9, 4.84%
United Kingdom
9 publications, 4.84%
Netherlands, 4, 2.15%
Netherlands
4 publications, 2.15%
Austria, 3, 1.61%
Austria
3 publications, 1.61%
Canada, 3, 1.61%
Canada
3 publications, 1.61%
Finland, 3, 1.61%
Finland
3 publications, 1.61%
Switzerland, 3, 1.61%
Switzerland
3 publications, 1.61%
France, 2, 1.08%
France
2 publications, 1.08%
Belgium, 2, 1.08%
Belgium
2 publications, 1.08%
Italy, 2, 1.08%
Italy
2 publications, 1.08%
China, 1, 0.54%
China
1 publication, 0.54%
Denmark, 1, 0.54%
Denmark
1 publication, 0.54%
India, 1, 0.54%
India
1 publication, 0.54%
Ireland, 1, 0.54%
Ireland
1 publication, 0.54%
Colombia, 1, 0.54%
Colombia
1 publication, 0.54%
New Zealand, 1, 0.54%
New Zealand
1 publication, 0.54%
Sweden, 1, 0.54%
Sweden
1 publication, 0.54%
Japan, 1, 0.54%
Japan
1 publication, 0.54%
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Publishing countries in 5 years

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USA, 10, 11.9%
USA
10 publications, 11.9%
United Kingdom, 8, 9.52%
United Kingdom
8 publications, 9.52%
Germany, 6, 7.14%
Germany
6 publications, 7.14%
Australia, 6, 7.14%
Australia
6 publications, 7.14%
Netherlands, 4, 4.76%
Netherlands
4 publications, 4.76%
Canada, 3, 3.57%
Canada
3 publications, 3.57%
Austria, 2, 2.38%
Austria
2 publications, 2.38%
Belgium, 2, 2.38%
Belgium
2 publications, 2.38%
Finland, 2, 2.38%
Finland
2 publications, 2.38%
France, 1, 1.19%
France
1 publication, 1.19%
China, 1, 1.19%
China
1 publication, 1.19%
Denmark, 1, 1.19%
Denmark
1 publication, 1.19%
India, 1, 1.19%
India
1 publication, 1.19%
Italy, 1, 1.19%
Italy
1 publication, 1.19%
Colombia, 1, 1.19%
Colombia
1 publication, 1.19%
New Zealand, 1, 1.19%
New Zealand
1 publication, 1.19%
Switzerland, 1, 1.19%
Switzerland
1 publication, 1.19%
Japan, 1, 1.19%
Japan
1 publication, 1.19%
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