Critique

Critique 属中科院文学大类（2025 升级版4区）。按 OpenAlex 近年发文统计，该刊主要发表 French Urban and Social Studies、Linguistics and Discourse Analysis、Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research 等主题的论文，这 3 个主题约占 32.9%。（根据 OpenAlex 主题统计与中科院分区数据生成）

Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory is an independent, refereed, scholarly journal founded in 1973. It attempts to analyse contemporary society from a critical Marxist perspective. Critique takes the view that Marxism has been so degraded by the Stalinist period that much of what has passed for Marxism has ranged between incoherent nonsense and empty if complex scholastic schema. Since socialism in one country is a theoretical and practical impossibility, Critique rejected and continues to reject analyses purporting to show this or that country is or was socialist. Furthermore, Critique emphatically insists on the impossibility of an undemocratic socialism. The aim of Critique is to take part in the restoration of the earlier pre-eminence of Marxist thought by encouraging discussion around the political economy of contemporary capitalist and non-capitalist societies. For this purpose, it regards debate around methodology and as a consequence philosophy to be essential. Inevitably, contemporary political economy must also involve debate around the importance of historical events and so Critique encourages contributions of historical analysis. In short, Critique's aim is to publish theoretical work at various levels of abstraction from the most profound to that of analytical description in order to help provide the theory required for socialist change, which with the end of Stalinism is once more on the agenda. The Origins of Critique : Critique was founded in May 1973 following its first conference in London, at which some 500 people attended. In the initial editorial it declared that its aim was to analyse Stalinism based on the empirical reality, while rejecting an empiricist approach. It sought to discover the laws of motion applying to Stalinism. It rejected the imposition of schema on the analysis, usual both on the left and right. The journal became associated with a new school of thought critical of Stalinism and the Soviet Union, which argued that the USSR was neither actually nor potentially a mode of production. Articles made it clear that it could not last and that the market would be imposed but that it would fail. The theory has been amply borne out by events. In the second issue the editorial made clear "that we will follow the logic of our enterprise and publish articles on wider aspects of socialist theory, such as problems of the transitional period, the socialist mode of production etc." Debates on the decline of capitalism and the impor

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中科院期刊分区表

期刊官网公布的 JCR / CiteScore 分区

• CiteScore Q2 · 2025 年度

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影响力指标

CiteScore（出版商公布） 2025

0.3出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

SJR（出版商公布） 2025

0.16出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

SNIP（出版商公布） 2025

0.16出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

h-index

15OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

38OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

两年平均被引

0.05OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

自引率

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Gold OA 文章占比

0.76%LetPub · 2026-09-13

发文规模

年文章数

53LetPub · 2026-09-13

年下载量（出版商公布）

47,000出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

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各来源数据

录用率（出版商公布）

34%出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

投稿到首次决定

33 天出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

外审后首次决定

44 天出版商官网 · 2026-10-01

社区反馈来自投稿者样本，置信度 0.5，不代表期刊承诺；“出版商公布”的时间节点定义以官网为准。

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ISSN

0011-1600

印刷版 ISSN

0301-7605

电子版 ISSN

1748-8605

官网最新一期

Volume 54, Issue 2（2026 年）

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