Global Discourse

Global Discourse is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Political Economy and Marxism, International Relations and Foreign Policy and Peacebuilding and International Security, together about 20.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Published by Bristol University Press from 2019. Global Discourse is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented journal of applied contemporary thought operating at the intersection of politics, international relations, sociology and social policy. The journal’s scope is broad, encouraging interrogation of current affairs with regard to core questions of distributive justice, wellbeing, cultural diversity, autonomy, sovereignty, security and recognition. All issues are themed and aimed at addressing pressing issues as they emerge. Rejecting the notion that publication is the final stage in the research process, Global Discourse seeks to foster discussion and debate between often artificially isolated disciplines and paradigms, with responses to articles encouraged and conversations continued across issues. The journal features a mix of full-length articles, each accompanied by one or more replies, policy papers commissioned by organizations and institutions and book review symposia, typically consisting of three reviews and a reply by the author/s. With an international advisory editorial board consisting of experienced, highly-cited academics, Global Discourse publishes themed issues on topics as they emerge. Authors are encouraged to explore the international dimensions and implications of their work. The journal publishes themed issues consisting of articles, replies and reviews. All submissions must be in response to a specific call for papers. All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing. Sorry, there are currently no metrics available for this journal.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

5LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.38LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.97LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

32OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

135OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.09OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

15.25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

26LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

2326-9995

Electronic ISSN

2043-7897

Latest issue on the website

Volume 8, Issue 4 (2018)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website