Disputatio-International Journal of Philosophy

Disputatio-International Journal of Philosophy is published by Disputatio Editions-IAR and is in Zone 3 of Philosophy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics and Philosophy and History of Science, together about 47.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Disputatio Volume 16Call for Papers: Kant and Analytic PhilosophyCall for Papers: New Directions in Virtue AestheticsCall for Papers: The Many Faces of ExpertiseDisputatio is an international journal of philosophy in the analytic tradition. It is owned by the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon and managed by the LanCog research group. The journal is a non-profit publishing venture. It is currently published by De Gruyter/Sciendo, exclusively online, as a fully open-access journal. Disputatio aims at publishing original, high-quality research articles on any aspects of analytic philosophy (broadly construed), written in either English or Portuguese.Disputatio was founded in 1996 by João Branquinho, Fernando Ferreira, M.S. Lourenço and João Sàágua. It was published by the Portuguese Philosophical Society until 2004. Former editors include M.S. Lourenço, João Branquinho, Teresa Marques and Célia Teixeira. Since 2017, the journal has been jointly edited by Ricardo Santos and Elia Zardini.Rejection Rate:80%Why subscribe and readDisputatio aims at publishing high-quality articles on any aspects of analytic philosophy (broadly construed), written in either English or Portuguese.Why submitA submission accepted for publication in Disputatio should make at least one original (possibly negative) point with sufficient plausibility and rigour. Disputatio is one of the leading philosophy journals in the Romance-speaking world. It has been classified in category Q2 of the SCImago Journal Rank in 2021 and 2022 and Q1 in 2020 and 2023.All unsolicited submissions to Disputatio are triple-blind refereed: the identity of the authors is not revealed to the referees, the identity of the referees is not revealed to the authors and the identity of the authors is not revealed to the editors.The evaluation process has up to four stages, as follows:Preliminary vetting by the editors.Refereeing.Scrutiny of submission and referees’ reports by the editors.Decision by the editors.The editors’ decision classifies the submission into one of the four categories: accepted, conditionally accepted, invited for resubmission after major revisions and rejected. Positive referees’ reports are not a sufficient condition for acceptance and each decision is the editors’ sole responsibility.On average, each evaluation process as detailed above takes around four months.SponsorsDisputatio is currently sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (UIDP/00310/2020).Disp

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Research area (LetPub): PHILOSOPHY

Editor-in-chief Ricardo SantosPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Spain 13, Portugal 10, United States 7, United Kingdom 7, Brazil 3 (44 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.44LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

35OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

87OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.25OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

about 35 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 30 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Disputatio Editions-IAR

Country or region

Spain

Language

English, Spanish, Portuguese

ISSN

0873-626X

Electronic ISSN

2182-2875

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