Citizenship Studies

Aims & Scope

Citizenship Studies is an academic journal that takes the discourse and practice of citizenship as an object of critical inquiry.

This includes the affects, economies, ideologies, spatialities, subjectivities, and temporalities relevant to contending articulations of citizenship.

We seek submissions that are responsive to forms of domination and control in relation to citizenship, as well as to modes of resistance and transformation.

The journal addresses historical and contemporary questions of concern to various publics; it aims to cover a wide geographical scope and encourages approaches that attempt to move beyond methodological nationalism.

We seek submissions that make original theoretical and empirical contributions and encourage interdisciplinary perspectives covering the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, international studies, politics, political-economy and sociology.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.9
2024	1.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.853

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	76

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6181

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	432

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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 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.

• Inclusive Citizenship: Realizing the Potential1

  Citation: 404

  Authors: Ruth

• After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile commons

  Citation: 330

  Authors: Dimitris, Vassilis S.

• Secure borders, safe haven, domopolitics

  Citation: 297

  Authors: William

• Institutionalizing precarious migratory status in Canada

  Citation: 296

  Authors: Luin, Carolina, Judith K.

• Transformation of Citizenship: Status, Rights, Identity

  Citation: 273

  Authors: Christian

• Investigating Citizenship: An Agenda for Citizenship Studies

  Citation: 270

  Authors: Engin F., Bryan S.

• The neurotic citizen

  Citation: 262

  Authors: Engin F.

• Deportation, Expulsion, and the International Police of Aliens

  Citation: 260

  Authors: William

• Young citizens and civic learning: two paradigms of citizenship in the digital age

  Citation: 237

  Authors: W. Lance, Chris, Allison

• Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins

  Citation: 205

  Authors: Ilker, Kim, Maurice

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