Argumentation

Aims & Scope

Argumentation is an international and interdisciplinary journal.

Its aim is to gather academic contributions from a wide range of scholarly backgrounds and approaches to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion: communication, rhetoric (classical and modern), linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psychology, philosophy, logic (formal and informal), critical thinking, history and law.

Its scope includes a diversity of interests, varying from philosophical, theoretical and analytical to empirical and practical topics.

Argumentation publishes papers, book reviews, a yearly bibliography, and announcements of conferences and seminars.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.3
2024	1.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.679

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8401

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	145

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

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

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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.

• Dialogue theory for critical thinking

  Citation: 115

  Authors: Douglas N.

• Comparing the Argumentum Model of Topics to Other Contemporary Approaches to Argument Schemes: The Procedural and Material Components

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Eddo, Sara

• Image Events, the Public Sphere, and Argumentative Practice: The Case of Radical Environmental Groups

  Citation: 103

  Authors: John W., Kevin Michael

• Fallacies in pragma-dialectical perspective

  Citation: 98

  Authors: Frans H., Rob

• Argumentation as dialectical

  Citation: 96

  Authors: J. Anthony, Ralph H.

• Rhetoric and Dialectic from the Standpoint of Normative Pragmatics

  Citation: 90

  Authors: Scott

• Strategic Maneuvering: A Synthetic Recapitulation

  Citation: 89

  Authors: Frans H., Peter

• Argument by Analogy

  Citation: 89

  Authors: A.

• The Study of Visual and Multimodal Argumentation

  Citation: 77

  Authors: Jens E.

• Ethos, pathos and logos in Aristotle's Rhetoric: A re-examination

  Citation: 76

  Authors: Antoine C.

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