Alter

Aims & Scope

ALTER is a peer-reviewed European journal which looks at disability and its variations.

It is aimed at everyone who is involved or interested in this field.

ALTER is an emblematic Latin word for all forms of difference, leaving open the question of their nature and expression.

An inter-disciplinary journal First and foremost, interdisciplinarity means remaining open to all human and social sciences: sociology, anthropology, psychology, psychoanalysis, history, demography, epidemiology, economics, law, etc.

It also means a connection between the different forms of knowledge - academic and fundamental - applied and relating to the experience of disability.

A cross-disciplinary journal Research on disability and its variations constitutes a transversal axis which opens the review up to a multitude of approaches and problematic.

It covers matters ranging from the individual to the environment, from impairment to participation, from discrimination to the exercise of citizenship...

ALTER looks at all the questions examined in human and social sciences, be they social, economic, political or health related.

A European journal The European dimension means having a multicultural outlook; it means well-argued comparisons and useful scientific controversies that go beyond national boundaries.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.6
2024	0.90

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	15693

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	53

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.331

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Disability and poverty: A survey of World Bank Poverty Assessments and implications

  Citation: 191

  Authors: Jeanine, Daniel

• Cold technologies versus warm care? On affective and social relations with and through care technologies

  Citation: 143

  Authors: Jeannette, Ingunn

• Disabilities through the Capability Approach lens: Implications for public policies

  Citation: 111

  Authors: Jean-Francois, Parul, Nicolò, Mario, Francesca

• Barriers and facilitators to societal participation of people with disabilities: A scoping review of studies concerning European countries

  Citation: 81

  Authors: Elisabeth, Mikael, Fredrica

• Extending the capability paradigm to address the complexity of disability

  Citation: 69

  Authors: Jean-Luc, Jean-François

• Approaching the measurement of disability prevalence: The case of Zambia

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Mitchell E., Arne H., Daniel

• Implementing the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities: principles, implications, practice and limitations

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Raymond, Maria, Nora, Jean-Francois

• (Dis)ability and the experience of accessibility in the urban environment

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Inger Marie, Per Koren

• Re-imagining the museum through “touch”: Reflections of individuals with visual disability on their experience of museum-visiting in Greece

  Citation: 60

  Authors: Vassilios S., Charikleia

• Employment opportunities for persons with different types of disability

  Citation: 58

  Authors: Tomas, Anders, Berth, Eva

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